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I don't understand what the big deal was there. Debian has its own bug tracker for all of its packages so the distro maintainers get bothered about bugs in old

by ndiddy 2y ago

I don't understand what the big deal was there. Debian has its own bug tracker for all of its packages so the distro maintainers get bothered about bugs in old packages shipped by the stable version of Debian rather than upstream developers. JWZ decided to voluntarily subscribe to the Debian bug tracker for his package and then add a nag screen and start a flame war over them shipping an old version.

immibis 2y ago
When you look at the about box, does it say Debian Screensaver based on xscreensaver, or does it say xscreensaver? When you Google the name of the program, whose website comes up first?
plorkyeran 2y ago
Debian users frequently report bugs to upstream and not Debian.
- Shish2k 2y ago
  An unfortunate side effect of github being extremely user-friendly, while debian's reportbug tool still greets "novice" users with "please enter your SMTP host" (I dread to think what questions it would have asked me if I'd selected the "expert" mode)
sunshowers 2y ago
This contract has not been upheld in practice for a very long time. Users will go straight to upstream a lot of the time.
edflsafoiewq 2y ago
Distros have neither the knowledge nor the bandwidth to analyze bug reports for upstream projects.