Renaming = forking

Date: 2016-04-06 07:05 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
The argument can be made that any time they backport fixes, they should rename the package, and consider it a fork. "Here's YScreenSaver, an app which is very similar to some old version of XScreenSaver."
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