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General Debian • Mailing lists for newcomers/non-techies

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Hello! After the problem with Debian 12.5 update and nvidia proprietary drivers i started to look for detailed release notes, but all i have found on the web is this - https://www.debian.org/News/2024/20240210, and there are no warnings about possible problems. @donald advised to subscribe to a mailing lists (viewtopic.php?p=792978#p792978), in particular:
  • "debian-backports:
    debian-kde:
    debian-security: ( a must. It is high volume though)
    debian-accessibility: Making Debian more accessible to people with disabilities
    debian-ai: Debian's Machine Learning & Hardware Acceleration
    debian-boot: Developing the installation system
    debian-devel: Development of Debian ( a must)
    debian-mentors: Helping newbie developers"
Out of curiosity i have suscribed to a large number of mailing lists in order to figure out later, which are relevant for me. They are
  • debian-announce
    debian-backports
    debian-backports-announce
    debian-bugs-dist
    debian-desktop
    debian-devel
    debian-devel-announce
    debian-gtk-gnome
    debian-kernel
    debian-lts-announce
    debian-news
    debian-security
    debian-security-announce
    debian-stable-announce
    debian-user


But during the last few days after subscription i have received mail only for debian-user and bugs-dist, (and i checked spam). I don't know why there is nothing from other mailing lists, are they so rarely updated? I have checked my subscription with which email. By the way online form for subscriptions doesn't work for me on any browser, had to do it manually through request mails.

bugs-dist
mailing list is very overwhelming and very difficult to to understand. For example "I've found the SEGV issue with 13.1.1+dfsg-1 on armhf. With patched abi=+time64 version 13.1.1+dfsg-1.2 in experimental, the
issue was resolved." is pure "chinese" for me.

What mailing lists should i use to keep track of important bugs? Can i use debian-user for help with some issues, in a manner people do on this forum? Is it normal that other mailing lists, not debian-user and bugs-dist, so rarely used?

Statistics: Posted by alienspy — 2024-02-20 14:52 — Replies 2 — Views 60



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