Dianne Skoll via linux wrote on 2025-10-03 09:17:
On Fri, 3 Oct 2025 09:02:01 -0700 Ron via linux<linux@linux-
ottawa.org> wrote:
If I wrote and maintain $software, I don't want to field bug
reports from Hentai69Girls420LOL distro's users because that
distro has done something weird in their repos.
Counterpoint: I did write and support commercial software ... we
said to customers: "If you can make it run on your $UNIX_LIKE
system, we will support our software. But if the problem is due to
your OS, you're on your own."
That's great, but "commercial" is a key point. A lot of software we use
is not commercial which means developers are not obligated to do that
due to working for free.
Ideally they would, but I've heard of lots of burned out devs frustrated
by bug reports from distro packaging issues.
(And now it's getting worse with people submitting vague, AI-generated
"bugs" that aren't even bugs, but I digress.)
Second counterpoint: Sometimes you can find bugs in your code that
are exposed on different OSes or CPU architectures.
That's a great point.
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