In <[🔎] 200904091620.34787.suy@badopi.org>, Alejandro Exojo wrote: >El Jueves, 9 de Abril de 2009, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. escribió: >> I get my OS from one source, the Debian repositories (and initially the >> Debian cdimage ftp server). I should only need to provide feedback to one >> source: Debian. > >Come on: nobody reports to their ISP the problems of 3rd party websites. Debian is not like an ISP. They don't simply serve as a medium through which unmodified data passes. Debian maintainers add to and change upstream to make Debian a complete system. If my ISP is routinely, detectably modifying the data I receive from third parties, they better be prepared to receive come calls. >And >they don't ask the shop were the bought a Windows box a problem they had > with the software. Um, yes they do. Often. Or at least they did when I worked for a guy that sold Windows boxes. Dell/Gateway/HP do plenty of end-user support. >> Maintainers are ultimately responsible for what I receive; >> *NOT* upstream. If you don't have enough time to *maintain* the package, >> don't even bother packaging it. > >You just maintain the package, that is, the work you do, and the software > you write, not the rest. Not true. If there's a security bug in a Debian package, it gets fixed even if upstream isn't happy with the way Debian does it. Other bugs should be handled the same way. Upstream is a valuable resource for Debian maintainers, but ultimately they are responsible for what they are providing users. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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