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Why do we need to blame anyone? Software has a lifecycle too, what was well maintained 10 year ago isn't necessarily maintained anymore because people have move
by daenney 10y ago
Why do we need to blame anyone? Software has a lifecycle too, what was well maintained 10 year ago isn't necessarily maintained anymore because people have moved on. Ten year ago adding this to Debian in its current state might have been the right thing to do. Now, as other components have evolved, it's introduced a problem. If you are going to not include software because ten years down the line it might have a bug and you want to have someone to blame for it you're going to end up with a very empty package repository.
Once the bug is found a ticket gets filed for it, the security teams handle it and life moves on. If the software instead isn't deemed necessary a recommendation is made to remove it from the distribution instead.
- pawadu 10y agoBecause we need some kind of quality assurance or else we are left with cowboy developers moving fast and breaking things on other peoples machines.
- daenney 10y agoQuality assurance doesn't have to have anything to do with blaming people.
- slededit 10y agoChange the question to "who owned maintenance of the code" and it becomes valid. The kernel of the question is in fact interesting. Distros have far too much software for any reasonable person to assume they maintain all of it.