Hi, On 2021-05-19 11:40 a.m., Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 06:24:20PM +0300, IL Ka wrote: >> On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 6:22 PM Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside < >> deb...@polynamaude.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi ! >>> Is there some IRC channel for Debian ? >>> >> >> https://wiki.debian.org/IRC > > It's worth mentioning that there are #debian channels on at least two > different IRC networks: OFTC and Freenode. > > All of the "official" Debian channels are on the OFTC network, because > for whatever reason(*), all of the Debian developers moved over there > about 15 years ago. > > However, almost all of the Debian *users* are on the Freenode network. > > It is what it is. > > Freenode's #debian has more people, and you will probably get help there > faster, so long as your question is actually on-topic and reasonable > for an IRC channel. However, all of the specialized channels (like > #debian-next, #debian-boot, or #debian-mentors) are on the OFTC network. > If your question is highly specific, or if you are not using a stable > Debian release, you may need to be on both networks. > I'll go with both... Between two bad options, act crazy and take both ! > Example of common *off-topic* questions for #debian (ones which will get > you ignored, yelled at, or kicked out of the channel, depending on how > you act) include: questions about sid/unstable, questions about Ubuntu, > questions about MX Linux, and questions about Kali Linux. > I try not to be off-topics but sometime the line is thin. I give you a small example... Yesterday I downloaded the virtualbox package from the Ubuntu repository (because I just found it's not in Debian anymore) and compiled it on Debian. Because all the software that I can't find compiled in the Debian normal repository, I get them from either Ubuntu or Kali and compile them myself. Yes I compiled all the packages that are in Kali but not in Debian, to make my own Buster with Kali software. That was "hell of a mess" but as I did it before with Stretch, I already had a base.
Not let say, I'm having a specific problem related to some choice made for build options in the Debian files buildflags.mk, is this question off-topic ? Yes because I went and get it off the Ubuntu repository ? No because I'm building on Debian Buster ? If answer is "yes" then will I get the same answer if I get the file from the git repository and simplify my job by getting some build files (rules control etc.) from the Ubuntu package ? And if I do write the build files myself... Add to this some "power pleasure" of admins and you get a nice soup ! > (*)I shouldn't speak ill of the dead, but some of you will remember the > guy I'm thinking of, a Freenode admin who drove a lot of people away. Or > was the network still called OPN at the time? I don't rememeber when > the name changed.... > Sorry to read this... I used to be a therapist, maybe I could have helped... -- Polyna-Maude R.-Summerside -Be smart, Be wise, Support opensource development
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