Hi all, On Mon Feb 2, 2026 at 2:35 PM CET, Simon Josefsson wrote:
I agree with that, but there are plenty of examples of the contrary in well-established parts of Debian. Many Debian maintainers disagree with upstream maintainers on a wide variety of matters [...] I think this is generally unproductive and leads to poor relationship between Debian and upstreams.
While sometimes this can be true, it is also true that upstream projects often live in a bubble. In Debian, we need to make sure everything fits coherently together; hence: patching. So I'd say this isn't as bad as it looks.
Bye :)
