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by capitol_
397 days ago
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It's also easy for people to have the opinion the those who do the unpaid work of packaging software should do even more work for free. I have sent about 50 or so patches upstream for the 300 packages I maintain and while it reduces the amount of work long-term it's also surprisingly amount of work. Typically the Debian patches are licensed under the same license as the original project. So there is nothing stopping anyone who feels that more patches should be sent upstream to send them. Typically the Debian maintai |
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If you're going to do that, then you should actually let people know. Otherwise don't do it. It's not about "but the license allows it", it's about what the right thing to do is.
Debian has given me the most grief of any Linux distro by far. Actually, Debian is the only system I can recall giving me grief. Debian pushes a lot of work to the broader ecosystem to people who never asked for it.
I didn't choose to be associated with Debian, but I have no choice in the matter. You did choose to be associated with the packages you maintain.
So don't give me any of that "but my unpaid time!". Either do the job properly or don't do it at all. Both are fine; no maintainer asked you to package anything. They're just asking you to not indirectly push work on them by shipping random (potentially broken and/or highly opinionated) patches they're never even told about.