| I agree with this sentiment a lot of the time but consider this: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=382911 it is a duplicate of https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=378854 which is fixed by https://cgit.kde.org/konversation.git/commit/?id=783dc0f595e... but upstream for some reason does not think this is important enough to tag and bag into a release. as much hate as Fedora gets, rdieter has taken the time to backport the changes that we need in Fedora. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-9c3e2138... Ideally, we'd rather see upstream release this fix but we've all read https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14051106 and I don't want to be too impatient with software that upstream has graciously provided for free (in both senses of the word!) I guess my point is backporting might make sense if there are small changes we can make to enhance release. However, I agree that there is too much duplication of effort going on. |
And, I'm not too surprised, KDE has a broken development and maintenance process. I'm sure they think they're doing a great job - but that's because they don't even see or receive most bug reports.