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by yjftsjthsd-h 399 days ago
> 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.

Okay, I am hereby letting you know: Every single distro patches software. All of them. Debian, Arch, Fedora, Gentoo, NixOS, Alpine, Void, big, small, commercial, hobbyist. All of them.
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arp242 399 days ago
That's simply not true. Some distros may patch a few build issues, or maybe the rare breaking bug, but nothing like what Debian does. To claim anything else is Trumpian levels of falsehood.
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LtWorf 399 days ago
What does debian do exactly?
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