federalreverse-old@feddit.de to Linux@lemmy.ml · 5 months agoDebian maintainer unilaterally strips KeepassXC package of a lot of featuresfosstodon.orgexternal-linkmessage-square49fedilinkarrow-up1156arrow-down146 cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1110arrow-down1external-linkDebian maintainer unilaterally strips KeepassXC package of a lot of featuresfosstodon.orgfederalreverse-old@feddit.de to Linux@lemmy.ml · 5 months agomessage-square49fedilink cross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squarePossibly linux@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up45arrow-down6·5 months agoThe Debian maintainer is probably a volunteer. Can we not troll people who make Debian and Foss possible?
minus-square9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up23arrow-down2·edit-25 months agoTo be fair, it looks like the debian maintainer started the unfriendly discourse by calling the work of other FOSS devs “crap” Everyone needs to chill out, otherwise we have another potential XZ social engineering attack It would be catastrophic for something like keepass to have a malicious maintainer take over
minus-squarefederalreverse-old@feddit.deOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up15arrow-down3·edit-25 months agoYou have a point to some degree, yet I still think it is defensible to make this post. He majorly altered software downstream against user expectations for somewhat spurious reasons seemingly quite ad-hoc He then went on to defend that decision in a less-than-graceful way before announcing there will be a second, new package. But, to make it clear: I certainly don’t approve of hate directed toward him and I don’t have a personal issue with him.
minus-squareBitrot@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down6·5 months agoHe is paid by Canonical. Explains some of the hubris.
The Debian maintainer is probably a volunteer. Can we not troll people who make Debian and Foss possible?
To be fair, it looks like the debian maintainer started the unfriendly discourse by calling the work of other FOSS devs “crap”
Everyone needs to chill out, otherwise we have another potential XZ social engineering attack
It would be catastrophic for something like keepass to have a malicious maintainer take over
You have a point to some degree, yet I still think it is defensible to make this post. He majorly altered software
He then went on to defend that decision in a less-than-graceful way before announcing there will be a second, new package.
But, to make it clear: I certainly don’t approve of hate directed toward him and I don’t have a personal issue with him.
He is paid by Canonical.
Explains some of the hubris.