]] Steve Langasek > On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 05:29:51PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > This might be your impression. It does not at all match my impression. > > > Quite a few upstreams thinks Debian are working contrary to their > > design and their goals and are actively hindering adoption of their > > software. If you're interested in examples, just take a look at how > > rubygems was handled in Debian until wheezy and all the silliness > > around node.js and /usr/bin/node.
(Just to be very clear: I'm reporting what I see other people are saying. I am not saying I agree with them.) > When, as in the case of node.js, upstream is antisocial and has an > overinflated sense of self-importance, it's perfectly appropriate for > Debian to work contrary to their design. Our job is not to make > upstreams happy, it's to make our *users* happy; and while being good > Free Software citizens means we try to respect the wishes of upstreams > as well, there are exceptions. In some cases, making one set of users happy means making another set of users unhappy, so it always comes down to tradeoffs. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/874nm0g53b....@xoog.err.no
