> -----Original Message----- > From: Dng [mailto:dng-boun...@lists.dyne.org] On Behalf Of Daniel > Reurich > Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2015 3:58 PM > To: dng@lists.dyne.org > Subject: [Dng] Devuan - Fork or Derivative (or perhaps both) > > Hi > > I wonder if Devuan should rebrand its relationship to Debian as a > Derivative rather than a Fork. It may help to smooth things over a bit.
With respect, Devuan is a fork. It was born not out a need to adapt Debian for a particular use, but because Debian and Devuan deliberately parted company over philosophical and practical problems: software maintenance and committee politics. There is no healing that breach. Devuan and Debian are just too different. Just because they have disagreements does not mean that they have to be hostile. There is such a thing as agreeing to disagree, and remaining civil or even friends. Devuan needs to go its own way, free of systemd, but most importantly free of any need to be beholden to Debian's way of doing things. > > This may also be a good marketing approach as well as reduce the > hostility when we send bugreports and patches to debian. Just politely give them the patches and reports. If they refuse them at some point, then it is not Devuan's fault, but Debian's. Anyone is going to be hostile, let it be Debian. I think that Devuan wants to, it can hold itself to a higher standard. It need not get mired in the same bickering that Debian does. Just my two cents T.J. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
