OK? that has nothing to do with what I was correcting: > IMHO is a downstream maintainer is going to change a package in a way that doesn't have the intent of

OK? that has nothing to do with what I was correcting: > IMHO is a downstream maintainer is going to change a package in a way that doesn't have the intent of the upstream project, it should be published under a different name and that maintainer deal with all bug reports caused by their modified version. the downstream maintainer didn't "change a package in a way that doesn't have the intent of the upstream project", they altered the config flags in one package and made another with the previous flags. the maintainer is being a dick, but not in the way the OP suggested.