Re: Bug#138541: ITP: debian-sanitize (was Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material)
On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 02:12:26AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> Adam McKenna <adam@flounder.net> writes:
>
> > What you are proposing will waste the time of volunteers, and that is
> > unacceptable. A volunteer should spend his time maintaining his packages and
> > fixing bugs, not censoring upstream or responding to accusations of
> > "objectionable material", lest his packages fall into some sort of blacklist
> > maintained by christian-coalition types.
>
> It's perfectly reasonable to request a change to any Debian package.
> Maintainers are supposed to be grownups who are capable of dealing
> politely with any requested change, whether the answer is "yes", or
> "no".
You're absolutely correct, and we already have a vehicle for requesting such
changes; it's called the BTS. It seems to me that the current system is
working, since in the few years I've been using Debian, only one of these
requests (if there have indeed been more than one) have even made it out of
the BTS and onto the public lists.
--Adam
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Adam McKenna <adam@debian.org> <adam@flounder.net>
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