On Fri Nov 28, 2025 at 6:02 AM -03, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Fri, Nov 28, 2025 at 09:51:20AM +0100, Alex Myczko wrote: >> > has there been any change in the attitude radare2 upstream has towards >> > distributions? >> >> I think yes, I was not aware of any more problems during the last years, >> do you think we can close this bug? > > is there an explicit statement from upstream that they want to have > their software in stable Debian releases? > > We did remove radare2 from two stable releases (stretch and buster) in > point releases due to this upstream hostility, so any change of attitude > should really be explicit to avoid the same problem again.
Hey! There's no explicit change of attitude and it's very likely that there's been no more hostility because there's no radare2 in stable. I worked with the upstream author and we discussed about this several years ago, his main issue is: we need to be up-to-date with the latest things in order to have it functioning, infosec moves too fast and having people just install it from stable turns into troubleshooting noise for them with things they've fixed or changed, sometimes years ago. I suggest to keep this bug open and avoid getting it to stable, radare2 is meant to be used in the latest version, they even suggest to install it from Git, not from a package in a distribution. https://book.rada.re/install/intro.html https://rada.re/n/radare2.html - Jose
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