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by sergeykish 1928 days ago
Who would risk stability? And what is the issue with forking? ffmpeg/libav, openssl/libressl managed fine. No fork is the symptom.
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sprash 1928 days ago
The other forks you are mentioning are a completely different problem because there were inherent philosophical differences among developers.

X11 just needs "a release" so that package maintainers and distros can push updates. If you fork it you only make things worse.

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sergeykish 1928 days ago
Just needs a release that could contain bugs, could contain exploits. And current maintainers are not going to risk? I'm typing on X11 system, and it works, proving previous maintainers got it right. I am fine if active developers make a fork, prove its worth, some distributions adopting it, finally fork merged into base with new leadership.
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