A dispute has flared up inside the Debian project after a veteran maintainer criticized the Debian’s bug tracking system as outdated and increasingly unworkable for modern software development. The comments, data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2025/12/an-uncomfortable-but-necessary.html” target=”_blank” data-url=”https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2025/12/an-uncomfortable-but-necessary.html” referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link”>made by Meson build system creator and Debian maintainer Jussi Pakkanen on December 22, argue that Debian’s reliance on email-based bug control is actively discouraging contributors and leaving bugs poorly maintained.
Pakkanen, who maintains Meson packages in Debian, said the project’s Bug…
