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While I agree that users shouldn't be reporting breakage caused by distro maintainers, those maintainers have the right to modify and distribute changes in acco
by II2II 3y ago
While I agree that users shouldn't be reporting breakage caused by distro maintainers, those maintainers have the right to modify and distribute changes in accordance to the license. There are also many instances where these changes will be better aligned with the desires of end users. It is not simply a matter of the distros brand identity.
- Analemma_ 3y ago> those maintainers have the right to modify and distribute changes in accordance to the license. Sure, but this is a "just because you can, doesn't mean you should" situation. The authors of this blog post are asking distro maintainers to not do it, and IMO giving good reasons. > While I agree that users shouldn't be reporting breakage caused by distro maintainers, One of the reasons I brought up the jwz-vs-Debian Xscreensaver kerfuffle from a few years ago is because it was a great example of how it's not sufficient to just wave your hands and say "well, users should be filing bugs against the distro, not against upstream." Yes, they should, but empirically they don't and they probably never will. We need to figure out a solution for the real world as it exists, where upstream maintainers have to waste time and energy on bug reports that have nothing to do with them. OSS maintenance is enough of a headache as it is with real bugs that are actually your fault. It feels both against the spirit of OSS, and just plain unsustainable, to pile onto volunteers the hassle of dealing with users who are angry at a change their distro made.