On 30 March 2017 at 17:00, Stephen John Smoogen <smooge@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Sorry to say this but you are guessing and guessing you may have such impression that above may be truth.1) They are going to have 'non-upstream' patches for all their
software.. which is just one more thing to keep up with every update.
2) Most of this software is not stuff they care about. It is branches
on a tree for the only reason they packaged it up in the first place.
So it is busy work from what they want.
3) This isn't the only rodeo they are putting this package in. So this
patch set looks like a special snowflake patch they have to keep up
with.
Majority (+95%) of the patches related to build, install and test suite framework used by project is never changing.
/usr/bin/env changes are such changes because I've been able to observer within +3 years across few thousands packages.
Some of those changes will be used as long as distribution will be actively maintained because it is really hard sometimes to maintain such build, install and test suite framework fulfilling all OSeses needs.
Sometimes it is not about those that some source maintainers are kind of bab people.
Sometimes some people maintaining some publically available code are earning money from maining such projects by offering paid support for such software. In such cases it is nothing bad that such people do not care abut people which are not giving then money using such software.
As those changes are trivial maintaining them takes really small fraction of whole time necessary to upgrade package spec file between versions.
My personal observation says me that within last decade more than +60% of such changes never been updated.
Reality is different.
I'm fully aware that proposing such widely spreading change I'm entering on some conflict/battle ground.
I know that all long and/or complicated conflicts are possible to finish using only using two methods: by giving or taking away hope.
Stephen you chose to discourage me .. noticed ;-P
You must know something about me that I'm really hard nut and as long as you will be not giving me stricte technical/engineering arguments please expect that such argumentation will be crushed only on technical background using my exp, knowledge and/or thing which I've already done .. so I'm not using guessing like you :)
Please stop using guessing :)
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