Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Rubbish. I do no such thing, and I'll thank you not to try and > escalate this into a flamewar. The difference of opinion is merely > that -- differing views held by different people. > > I consider the practice of creating a fake upstream version > and keeping the same upstream name as misleading, and to do so > knowingly is, in my view, unethical. There is a distinction. There might be better ways to avoid flamewars than characterising lots of other maintainers as unethical, FYI. joey@dragon:~>grep-available -F version dfsg | grep Maintainer | sort | uniq -c 1 Maintainer: Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> 1 Maintainer: David Schleef <ds@schleef.org> 17 Maintainer: Debian X Strike Force <debian-x@lists.debian.org> 5 Maintainer: Debian XML/SGML Group <debian-xml-sgml-pkgs@lists.alioth.debian.org> 1 Maintainer: Decklin Foster <decklin@red-bean.com> 2 Maintainer: Dima Barsky <dima@debian.org> 1 Maintainer: Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> 1 Maintainer: Laszlo Boszormenyi (GCS) <gcs@debian.hu> 2 Maintainer: Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> 1 Maintainer: Thomas Bushnell, BSG <tb@debian.org> -- see shy jo
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