Re: Why distributions package software

2020-05-14 Thread Ty Young
On 5/14/20 7:37 AM, Igor Raits wrote: *big snip* I feel like the context of that whole email has been lost. It was merely a long list of reasons why "just package software for dozens of distros" isn't an viable answer in response to the other person's claim. Fedora is a bit of an exception

Re: Why distributions package software (was: Re: Re-Launching the Java SIG)

2020-05-14 Thread Jerry James
On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 6:38 AM Igor Raits wrote: > On Thu, 2020-05-14 at 06:33 -0500, Ty Young wrote: > > Nonsense spewing with no proof. > > Well, you have started this. Can you provide some statistics how many > bugs were introduced by distributions versus upstream bugs. My experience has been

Why distributions package software (was: Re: Re-Launching the Java SIG)

2020-05-14 Thread Igor Raits
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi, I wanted to avoid replying to this thread, but this message forced me to do so since it is spreading misinformation. On Thu, 2020-05-14 at 06:33 -0500, Ty Young wrote: > On 5/13/20 4:58 PM, Solomon Peachy wrote: > > On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 04:0