Re: is copyleft packaging bad for Debian?

Hi all,

On Mon Feb 2, 2026 at 2:35 PM CET, Simon Josefsson wrote:
> I agree with that, but there are plenty of examples of the contrary in
> well-established parts of Debian.  Many Debian maintainers disagree with
> upstream maintainers on a wide variety of matters [...]
> I think this is generally unproductive and leads to poor relationship
> between Debian and upstreams.

While sometimes this can be true, it is also true that upstream projects 
often live in a bubble. In Debian, we need to make sure everything fits 
coherently together; hence: patching. So I'd say this isn't as bad as it 
looks.

Bye :)