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Re: Debian derivatives and the Maintainer: field (again)



Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org> writes:

> On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 04:54:36PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
>> Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> writes:
>> 
>> > Besides which, do you honestly know which packages other Debian derivatives
>> > rebuild?  As a rule, they are far less communicative about their practices
>> > than Ubuntu.
>> 
>> How does the behavior of other Debian derivatives matter?  
>
> How does it not matter?

Because "tu quoque" is a fallacy, and "is quoque" is even more one.

The fact that many people do a bad thing does not make the badness of
John Doe's doing it any better.



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