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Re:Debian's /tmpest in a teapot by dsr_ on Tuesday June 04, 2024 @05:03PM (#40578910)
Excepting a General Resolution or a Policy violation, every accredited Debian Developer can do whatever the heck they feel like in their own packages.

This can pose problems. Boccasi steamrollered, but relatively politely.

Re:Debian's /tmpest in a teapot by KennyBlanken on Tuesday June 04, 2024 @10:01PM (#40580726)
Beyond "relatively politely."

People were more interested in bitching about edge cases where maintainers / projects / authors were doing things they should not have been doing in the first place than they were about addressing those issues, so he addressed them himself.

The man literally put up when others would not shut up.

Re:Debian's /tmpest in a teapot by guappa on Wednesday June 05, 2024 @08:12AM (#40583917)
The fact that YOU don't have a particular use case doesn't necessarily mean much. Billions of people don't use linux and this all doesn't matter to them.

But perhaps 30% could be in what you call "edge case", since your statistics is entirely based on yourself.

Re:Debian's /tmpest in a teapot by blucaz on Wednesday June 05, 2024 @09:40AM (#40584623)
The fact that YOU have a particular use case doesn't necessarily mean much either. Just customize your configuration accordingly, and move on.
Re:Debian's /tmpest in a teapot by guappa on Friday June 07, 2024 @02:25AM (#40605825)
But according to you, anyone who isn't "bluca" is an edge case :D