Re: FAQ diff -u [was: Monthly FAQ for Debian-user mailing list (last modified 20251101)]
On Sun, Nov 2, 2025 at 9:14 AM songbird wrote:
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> Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 02, 2025 at 11:36:26AM +0100, wrote:
> >> On Sun, Nov 02, 2025 at 02:45:31AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
> >> > On 11/2/25 1:35 AM, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> This would be too broad, IMO. Don't forget that Debian is a volunteer
> >> organisation, its infrastructure running off donations. Would you find
> >> it OK to (ab) use that infrastructure to provide support for users of
> >> highly commercial endeavours, just because their (well resourced!)
> >> overlords skimp on that? (Examples: Amazon, Ubuntu, Oracle, diverse
> >> Androids)?
> >>
> >> So I think it's OK to be also able to say "stop: this is an Oracle
> >> Linux question. Please go to their channels).
> >>
> >> It's only the "strict" part I'm not friends with.
> >>
> >
> > OK - I'll revise it to "Strictly, discussion of non-Debian-distributions
> > is off-topic on Debian-user"
> >
> > It's better if we don't get thirty five questions a month about
> > [Debian-derivative] XYZ and can say "Go and look on their forums
> > (which can be found here) and if they don't have any support, please
> > feel free to come back to Debian and show us the problem on Debian"
> >
> > We shouldn't have to be the last resort for other distribution users
> > who don't necessarily read past "Debian" in "Debian-derived" :)
> >
> > All the very best, as ever,
> >
> > Andy
>
> thanks Andy, i think the word "strictly" is too harsh and would
> rather see "discouraged" or even "strongly discouraged"...
>
> personally, i have no problem just skipping over things i see
> as OT or when i simply just do not have the time to reply (which
> is quite often true for me this time of the year anyways).
Same here.
Some people seem to find it too hard to just press the delete key
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>
> songbird
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