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In other words, a fork? Or how does the semantics of patch/changes/update differ in any way from maintaining a fork? The packaging has nothing to do with this.
by phil294 2y ago
In other words, a fork?
Or how does the semantics of patch/changes/update differ in any way from maintaining a fork? The packaging has nothing to do with this. It may not be a well-maintained fork, the maintainers might not see themselves capable of adding features and bugfixes on their own, but a fork is a fork.
- abustamam 2y agoWikipedia calls it a fork https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibreWolf https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibreWolf It may just be semantics though.
- marcthe12 2y agoI think the distinction is a soft fork or a hard fork. A soft fork is just a patchset over upstream and some people do not call it a fork. Hard fork mean that you are diverging from upstream, you do not longer follow upstream and you are fully separate from the upstream
- GoblinSlayer 2y agoI think fork implies following upstream. If you don't follow, then it's a divorce, not a fork.
- pseudalopex 2y agoYour definition of fork excludes many notable forks. I never heard someone call a software project a divorce.
- account42 2y agoNo, "fork" means development has separated paths from original project. Changing some relatively minor parts but otherwise keeping close to upstream would be better called a "spin", especially when most of the changes are just to the default configuration. It's a shame that GitHub messed up this term by calling any clone of a repository a "fork".