@condret
> debian maintainers have the hybris to patch packages, because they believer they know better than the devs
And that is a good thing, because software developers often assume that you want new features when you only want security updates. Updating is fine and dandy until things start breaking as a result. Backporting security fixes if good, I wish it was still more common, sadly it isn't anymore.
@Forestofenchantment @get @Suiseiseki @nyanide @sysrq @enigmatico
@condret
That's what you should always be doing, not for Debian, but in general, end users should never report problems upstream, that's what they have their distro's maintainers for — if they decide that it's indeed a problem with software and not their build of it, they report it further upstream 🤷
@Forestofenchantment @get @Suiseiseki @nyanide @sysrq @enigmatico
@condret
"Hello, I'd like to report a problem: I have this binary that someone else has built for me and it does not work",— WTF is this shit? They won't even be able to tell you how to reproduce the problem even if they tried really hard: they simply don't know what flags the software was built with.
@Forestofenchantment @get @Suiseiseki @nyanide @sysrq @enigmatico
and this is why i completly ignore bugreports from debian and ubuntu users. luckily debian-stable stopped packaging r2, but even debian-unstable still does and it's 2 releases behind. That on would be own is ok, if they didn't patch our code. i will not waste my time checking if a bug was caused by a debian maintainer not know what they are doing.
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