On Fri Aug 15, 2025 at 6:20 AM BST, Ansgar 🙀 wrote:
A principled opposition to apply patches or fix issues because the author did not jump to an arbitrary set of hoops set up by a maintainer seems like a bad idea. Enough security issues were not fixed or only fixed much later because vendors insisted on such things. I hope Debian can do better.
I agree completely. I hope we as a project can move to a consistent position on this, given enough time. But since we're so package and maintainer-centric, I doubt it will be possible any time soon.
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