It fixes the problem now but does nothing to prevent the same problem showing up again in another script. Good maintainers are careful about putting some band-a

It fixes the problem now but does nothing to prevent the same problem showing up again in another script. Good maintainers are careful about putting some band-aid over a problem instead of fixing it. And from what he said it seems he rather plans fixing it in Upstart instead of having to patch scripts every-time. That does not sound absurd to me.