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Maybe it's time for more free software projects to take advantage of the the "may require derived works to carry a different name" clause in the Debian Free Sof
by mjw1007 4y ago
Maybe it's time for more free software projects to take advantage of the the "may require derived works to carry a different name" clause in the Debian Free Software Guidelines and the Open Source Definition.
I think I'd be happiest in a world where distributions make their own decisions about what to package, but in a way that doesn't lead to their users filing unhelpful issues in the upstream bugtracker.
- yjftsjthsd-h 4y ago> but in a way that doesn't lead to their users filing unhelpful issues in the upstream bugtracker. AFAIK most distros also view that as a bug, actually; every time I've seen it discussed was in the context of telling people to file bugs against the distro's bug tracker, both because distros can and do have local bugs that don't even make sense to upstream, and because distro maintainers are generally much better placed to triage and sometimes debug issues.
- Gigachad 4y agoI have filed a lot of bugs against user level apps on distro bug trackers. Not a single one received even a comment or tag from a maintainer. Unless its a core system app that affects servers, they don't care or have time.