On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 05:29:51PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > This might be your impression. It does not at all match my impression. > Quite a few upstreams thinks Debian are working contrary to their design > and their goals and are actively hindering adoption of their software. > If you're interested in examples, just take a look at how rubygems was > handled in Debian until wheezy and all the silliness around node.js and > /usr/bin/node. When, as in the case of node.js, upstream is antisocial and has an overinflated sense of self-importance, it's perfectly appropriate for Debian to work contrary to their design. Our job is not to make upstreams happy, it's to make our *users* happy; and while being good Free Software citizens means we try to respect the wishes of upstreams as well, there are exceptions. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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