On Mon, Nov 09, 2026 at 08:50:05PM +0800, Maytham Alsudany wrote:
This is probably not prominent enough considering the amount of people that ignore this and go ahead.
And it doesn't say what we expect in regard of support terms. Many upstream authors tend to react to bug reports with a kneejerk "oh, that's the horribly outdated code that we released last week, please reproduce the issue with our current dev/HEAD and then install our next release". Once they learn that this attitude is not going to work in Debian, they usually reconsider their wish to have their software in Debian.
I once experienced that with an upstream who first asked me to package their program for Debian (which I did because we were on the same team @work) and then a few months later asked me to remove their software from Debian again even before it hit our first stable release.
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