... but sometimes you just can't hold on.

Mike Hearn, author of the wonderful autopackage installation software - the one that's breaking your distribution by overwriting files installed by the package manager - has been entertaining me these days. After claiming to have "designed a versioning scheme" that he compared to ELF, he started a flamewar about how Debian likes to break upstream's software - without any relevant example so far. Interestingly, this thread also showed there are still some people to believe D.J. Bernstein's teachings can be useful.

His latest blog entry really made my day. After complaining about people not using autopackage enough (guess why), he started again to claim Debian is breaking upstream's software, with finally one example: the user-agent in Xulrunner being broken. A bug in the first public release of the package. Just like we didn't fix bugs...