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>As a software dev, my personal experience of "professional linux distro packagers" is people literally removing random lines of code of my software until it bu
by totony 6y ago
>As a software dev, my personal experience of "professional linux distro packagers" is people literally removing random lines of code of my software until it builds - who cares if it crashes as soon as you do more than open it anyways.
That is, at least in my experience, very false. They often do care about build systems more than the maintainers, as they're the ones who have to make it work for everyone.
I've worked with the Gentoo packagers and those people I have interacted with have a lot of knowledge about how to distribute software. It's not for nothing the Gentoo community has to push changes upstream when upstream assumptions don't hold up downstream.
- plorkyeran 6y ago> They often do care about build systems more than the maintainers, as they're the ones who have to make it work for everyone. Every interaction I've had with packagers has been them trying to make the build system work for their single distro. None of them have ever tried to help make it work for "everyone" running linux, much less spend any time thinking about the other two platforms that have 90% of the actual users. IME they also tend to be much more focused on making the build system work on their distro than making the actual software work. Not surprising given that that's what they know, but they tend to be perfectly happy to make changes which cause functional problems to get things to build.