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Yea, mainters also modify X-sofware, backport it, compile with different than tested compilation flags, remove patches they don't like, don't upgrade software f

by akerro 8y ago

Yea, mainters also modify X-sofware, backport it, compile with different than tested compilation flags, remove patches they don't like, don't upgrade software for years or decades. Remember the time xscreensaver author asked Debian to remove it from their distro, added warning in GUI saying _("Warning:\n\n" "This version of xscreensaver is VERY OLD!\n" "Please upgrade!\n" "\n" "http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/\n" http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/\n" "\n" "(If this is the latest version that your distro ships, then\n" "your distro is doing you a disservice. Build from source.)\n" ), YES, THAT WHAT USERS WOULD SEE, if only Debian maintainer haven't removed this patch. jwz.org/blog/2016/04/i-would-like-debian-to-stop-shipping-xscreensaver/ https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=819703#84 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=819703#84

deathanatos 8y ago
Note that jwz.org redirects any requests from HN to a rather NSFW Imgur picture. (Also filled w/ ad hominem attacks towards HN users.) If you want to view the jwz.org link, copy the URL, and open it in Incognito.
- akerro 8y ago
  Fixed by removing https:// https://
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digi_owl 8y ago
And most of that come out of upstream not having a farts care about API stability! Thus distros have to work around that by freezing lib versions and any software depending on said lib version for the support period of the distro release (5-10 years). What is "funny" is that Debian here is doing no different from what RH had been doing with RHEL for ages, yet Debian gets all the flak... Never mind that xscreensaver has a very prominent splash screen with JWZ's email on it on every launch. Maybe if he didn't want every idiot on the net emailing him, he should not show it in their face all the time. He may be brilliant in some ways, but sometimes he can be an raging asshole. Hell, sometimes i wonder why he keeps supporting Linux as he seems to have no love for anything but Apple these days.

by akerro 8y ago

deathanatos 8y ago

Note that jwz.org redirects any requests from HN to a rather NSFW Imgur picture. (Also filled w/ ad hominem attacks towards HN users.) If you want to view the jwz.org link, copy the URL, and open it in Incognito.

akerro 8y ago
Fixed by removing https:// https://
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digi_owl 8y ago

And most of that come out of upstream not having a farts care about API stability! Thus distros have to work around that by freezing lib versions and any software depending on said lib version for the support period of the distro release (5-10 years). What is "funny" is that Debian here is doing no different from what RH had been doing with RHEL for ages, yet Debian gets all the flak... Never mind that xscreensaver has a very prominent splash screen with JWZ's email on it on every launch. Maybe if he didn't want every idiot on the net emailing him, he should not show it in their face all the time. He may be brilliant in some ways, but sometimes he can be an raging asshole. Hell, sometimes i wonder why he keeps supporting Linux as he seems to have no love for anything but Apple these days.