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IdeaFix

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Debian LTS/Extended by Freexian and Devuan EOL - best practices

I have a service that depends on Tomсat 9 and Java 8. I'm currently using Devuan 4 and Java from Temurin.

Debian 11 support ends in September, and Devuan 4 support will end soon as well.

My service is fairly stable and won't be updated. It's not exactly a legacy service, more like a "mature enterprise solution" .

I'd like to connect the Freexian repository, but I'm worried about potential issues.

Are there any good practices for using Freexian? Perhaps a whitelist of packages (tzdata, dns-root-data, and other system packages), or a blacklist?

Basically, I'd like to receive updates for Java (which will come from Temurin), Apache 2 (hopefully via ELTS), and the system/OS in general. Apache Tomchat 9 obviously won't update automatically, and even if it does, it won't have the scripts for Sysvinit.

So, has anyone tried Devian + ELTS Freexian and what happened?

IdeaFix

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Re: Debian LTS/Extended by Freexian and Devuan EOL - best practices

kernel 5.10 is also very interesting, does anybody tried kernel from Freexian?

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greenjeans

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Re: Debian LTS/Extended by Freexian and Devuan EOL - best practices

I haven't used Freexian, but perhaps @brocashelm can help you as he's mentioned he uses it for one of his installs, I think an old beowulf system in fact.

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