Debian-based images

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Is there any chance of providing Debian-based images?

[tianon]

Unfortunately not much -- beyond the added load of doubling the number of supported variations (which all compile from source, and are thus pretty heavy to build), supporting Debian is a bit more complicated as it already contains a version of Bash which we can't safely remove or replace directly (without potentially breaking a lot of other things), which means it's a bit difficult to ensure users get the version of Bash they actually expect.

That being said, the only real Dockerfile changes required would probably be adjusting the package installation lines to install (and purge) using apt-get instead of apk.