Hahaha, why is that such a big deal? Well, I have been using Debian for more than 10 years now and I thought I was well read, when it comes to the dpkg and apt commands. But today I actually learned not one, but two new things related to apt. Aaaaand the winners are: apt-build and volatile.

Well, as far as I am concerned there is no need for Gentoo anymore. ;) Let there be apt-build. Nice work on making recompiling performance critical packages as easy as directly installing them using apt-get. Nonono, please don’t start a flame on Debian vs. Gentoo, or Gentoo vs. rest of the world. I was just joking. :)

Second cool thing is Debain Volatile, a project aimed at getting more recent software like AV-scanners into the stable branch. So now there is less need to do some apt-pinning and/or upgrading to testing on your production servers. Nice.