Re: Questionable Package Present in Debian: fortune-mod
On Mon, Aug 21, 2023 at 07:09:00PM +0000, Holger Levsen wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 21, 2023 at 06:06:34PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 19, 2023 at 02:28:22PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> > https://www.debian.org/code_of_conduct.en starts off with:
> >
> > "The Debian Project, the producers of the Debian system, have adopted a
> > code of conduct for participants to its mailinglists, IRC channels and
> > other modes of communication within the project."
> >
> > Packaged software is not a "mode of communication within the project".
> > The code of conduct, therefore, does not apply to it.
>
> if an image, a png or a jpeg, is considered "software" by us, I'd very
> well also argue that packaging software is communication to the inside
> and outside of our project.
While I don't think this is entirely an unreasonable interpretation of
the facts and of our history, I also don't know that it is generally
accepted, and so I don't think this position is generally agreed upon
within the project.
> and if there is disagreement about this, we should extend the CoC.
That, for sure, is a good idea -- at the very least, we should take it
to a vote.
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I will have a Tin-Actinium-Potassium mixture, thanks.
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