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Yeah I thought of the same comment. That is unfortunate. Maybe Debian is more respectful since it's open source not backed by a company with enterprise custom

• bonzini 7y ago
  Not really, remember the ssh key fiasco which was also due to a Debian-only patch. (Disclaimer: I work for Red Hat)
• raverbashing 7y ago
  "respectful" as in let's wait years for a maintainer to come up with a solution and when we try to propose our own the maintainer trows a fit and turns it down?
  • dagwieers 7y ago
    Is that what happened? I remember it differently...
• mattdm 7y ago
  Eh. Although we don't always do things perfectly, Fedora has a pretty strong policy of working with upstreams first. By contrast in my personal experience as a developer of something that got packaged in Debian, I discovered later that that package had a bunch of patches added, a man page written (!) and so on, none of which was bad, but also none of which was fed back to me at all. (In case not obvious: I work for Red Hat on Fedora.)