On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 03:58:12PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Changing some working simply because you are offended by it is just > > plain wrong. You are making a decision based solely on your own personal > > criteria, rather than that of sound technical advice. > > I think a Debian developer has a perfectly legitimate right to do > this. I'm certainly *not* saying he ought to in any particular case. > > There is no rule *anywhere* in Debian that one has some kind of > obligation to give upstream authors an unlimited soapbox. Indeed, if > an upstream author insisted on one, we would regard that as a > requirement thoroughly incompatible with the DFSG.
If an individual developer feels it's warranted, then by all means, they can do so. But making it a Debian motto to do such is a bad idea. Ben -- .----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=-----. / Ben Collins -- Debian GNU/Linux -- WatchGuard.com \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---'