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Re:The OBS Project is threatening Fedora Linux with legal ac... by lmm on Thursday February 13, 2025 @09:05PM (#43043918)
If distro maintainers are going to futz with packages, for good reasons or bad, then they need to bear the corresponding support burden themselves and ensure it does not fall on the upstream maintainers. This is not really any different from the Debian OpenSSL fiasco, or the Debian cdrecord fiasco, or the Debian xscreensaver fiasco, or...
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Re:The OBS Project is threatening Fedora Linux with legal ac... by tuananh on Thursday February 13, 2025 @10:07PM (#43044347)
in this specific case, yes they are responsible for flathub. but Fedora is pushing Fedora Flatpak down to user's throat without user's awareness.
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Re:The OBS Project is threatening Fedora Linux with legal ac... by yjftsjthsd-h on Friday February 14, 2025 @12:29AM (#43045164)
> or the Debian cdrecord fiasco

I'm not sure I'd call that a fiasco, and

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cdrtools#License_compatibility...

says it was hardly a Debian thing. More to the point, I'd argue that there is a meaningful difference between "we're going to patch this" and "we aren't confident that we can ship this at all".

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