Jason Thorpe <thorpej%shagadelic.org@localhost> writes: > On Oct 31, 2004, at 11:21 AM, Perry E. Metzger wrote: > >> Sure, but another way to do this is to turn off warnings for the third >> party software until we can get the upstreams to accept patches. > > This is a silly argument. We have a source code management system > specifically so we can modify these things if necessary. We should > not allow ourselves to be hindered by slow up-stream software > providers or non-synchronized release schedules. If no notices are send to third-party software authors, they wont change. As a third party software author (heimdal) I've seen no mails from dsl about this change. I'm not saying that you are wrong, just that there are more the just going ahead with the change. Love
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