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Re:The Not-Forking Tool by pabs3 on Sunday June 13, 2021 @09:34PM (#27498391)
Debian's patches are generally out of necessity in order to use or support the upstream software in a sane way. Within Debian there is a culture of always sending patches upstream and most of the time patches not being upstream has a reason; for example there could be an unreasonable CLA, upstream might have gone proprietary, upstream might not accept external patches, upstream might not be (very) responsive etc.
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Re:The Not-Forking Tool by denton-scratch on Monday June 14, 2021 @05:33PM (#27508579)
Hey pabs,

I don't mean to knock the Debian maintainers. I have chosen to rely on Debian for at least a couple of decades. I was only bitching because Debian is still my friend (I bitch at my girlfriend too).

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Re:The Not-Forking Tool by pabs3 on Monday June 14, 2021 @08:31PM (#27510048)
I see :)

BTW, there are lots of ways to help Debian if you have the time/inclination to get involved.

https://www.debian.org/intro/help

Myself and others are always happy to help new people find a way to help out, the #debian-mentors or #debian-welcome IRC channels or the debian-mentors mailing list are good places for that.

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