Comment by lelanthran
2 days ago
> nonsense like the Xscreensaver situation ensues, where the original developers aggressively reject distro packages
I didn't know about this. Link?
2 days ago
> nonsense like the Xscreensaver situation ensues, where the original developers aggressively reject distro packages
I didn't know about this. Link?
https://www.jwz.org/blog/2016/04/i-would-like-debian-to-stop...
and
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=819703#158
Needless to say, Zawinski was more than a little frustrated with how the Debian maintainers do things.
But honestly, this took 30 seconds to Google and was highly publicized at the time. This whole "I never heard of this, link??" approach to defend a lost argument when the point made is easily verifiable serves to do nothing but detract from discussion. Which, you know, is what this place is for.
I wasn't defending anything; searching for xscreensaver debian debacle yielded links that might or might not have been what you were referring to, They did not, however, yield a link to the JWZ site.
I genuinely wanted to know what this was about.