On 11/01/2017 09:19 PM, Gunter Königsmann wrote: > When dealing with 3rd-party products any change in upstream sane or > debian might cause breaks, though.
And? As I said, this happens all the time. Seriously. You are phrasing this as if renaming library packages due to an SO bump is an exception. It isn't. > And not every firm will repackage an binary-only driver for a device > they no more sell => If it looks like such a thing might happen with > a 300€ hardware I recently bought I *will* panick. And will be prepared > re-consider whom to buy devices from, that is. It should be the responsibility of the end user to make sure to buy hardware from a Linux-friendly manufacturer who is willing to update their drivers accordingly. Do you really want that Debian keeps down it's drive to improve quality and reliability because Ubuntu user X bought a 50 Euro scanner from some random Chinese manufacturer who cannot be bothered to update their drivers every once a while? I don't. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
