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This couldn’t be any further from my experience. Instead of being told fuck off, I was offered (and later offered when I became a maintainer myself) constructiv
by lom 4y ago
This couldn’t be any further from my experience. Instead of being told fuck off, I was offered (and later offered when I became a maintainer myself) constructive criticism, often times with the patches, required to make it up to standard, included.
> maintainer says the old package works for him
We’re all just volunteers, who are doing this in our free time. Usually this works well enough for most packages, but you are always free to submit the fix yourself on nixpkgs ;). At least compared to other distros, that workflow simpler.
- pshirshov 4y ago> can't be any further Probably you are lucky. > always free to submit I did. The problem is that in this particular case there is one guy with merge rights who doesn't want to update a package because it breaks something for him so the package is outdated by years. He provided me an excerpt from his logs and said that the update doesn't work for him. Period. They don't even think that the outdated package doesn't work on _modern_ hardware.