Today I discovered Repology. It provides info on distribution repositories and their project versions.
Repology, the packaging hub
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The problem with semver is Hyrum’s Law
Today I realised the problem with semver is Hyrum’s Law.
Linux
Did some Linux related reading:
p.s. Linux has just bumped to major version 6!
How to downgrade a package in Debian using apt-get and apt-cache
See here. Basically:
dpkg --list apt-cache showpkg packagename apt-get install packagename=version echo "packagename hold" | sudo dpkg --set-selections
Report status of specified Debian package
Today learned about the dpkg -s command, e.g.
# dpkg -s kde-baseapps
Checking your Ubuntu version
Read about checking your Ubuntu version today and was reminded of lsb_release -a.
Software versioning
Been reading up on software versioning.