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Here is the core of the issue: https://lwn.net/Articles/118279/ https://lwn.net/Articles/118279/ Debian wanted to allow anyone to patch their firefox. Mozill

Here is the core of the issue: https://lwn.net/Articles/118279/ https://lwn.net/Articles/118279/ Debian wanted to allow anyone to patch their firefox. Mozilla said OK, but not with our name attached to it. And this makes sense on some level : No project wants to provide support for someone else's bugs.

est31 6y ago
For a desktop app it's understandable, but tons of scripts rely on the existence of rustc and cargo binaries. If the fork has to rename it to not-rustc just because it added e.g. gcc support, then that's going to break all the scripts.