[Mageia-dev] Minimal patching vs. fixing the whole Universe

[Radu-Cristian FOTESCU]

>>  A distro's job is not to judge the work of the _upstream_ developers as 
> long as this is not a real bug.
> 
> But it's to integrate software, and apply common policy to all of them.


ok, say a distro has 200 packages that use python, for a total of 20,000 *.py files. 
now what, the limited resources of a distro should be used to "patch optimally" the first line of all those 20,000 *.py files, just because this would mean to use a common policy?
_regardless_ of the fact that those files actually run?

this is so crazy in practice that... I don't know what to say. I'm refraining myself from saying things I'd regret.

R-C aka beranger