Rowland Penny [2018-07-10 15:44]: > On Tue, 10 Jul 2018 15:36:46 +0200 > Harald Arnesen <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Rowland Penny [2018-07-10 14:37]: >> >> > The problem is that it is probably easier to start anew rather than >> > trying to update/maintain an existing project. You have to contact >> > the existing maintainer (and you could have problems actually >> > finding the maintainer), get their permission to update the package >> > or fix bugs and then do what you wanted to do in the first place. >> >> Get their permission? Aren't we using free software? > > If you want to update a packages code, you need to get at it, otherwise > it is called a fork, therefore you need the maintainers permission to > change it.
If you can't get hold of the maintainer? -- Hilsen Harald _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
