On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 09:08:10AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > Steve Langasek <vorlon@netexpress.net> writes: > > Using voting to determine membership in the blacklist, however, lends a > > faux legitimacy to this package that it cannot and should not have. > > There should be nothing morally authoritative about such a package. > So what you are saying is that if I make such a package (not that I'm > actually contemplating doing so), and I use criteria *you* don't like, > you will try and censor my package? Are you disagreeing with my assertion that basing a blacklist on the opinions of the majority rather than on measurable characteristics of the packages in question is not a misleading standard that would do more harm than good? You can create your own debian-sanitize-tb if you'd like, and use any criteria you see fit, and I would have zero objections so long as the criteria used are publically disclosed and are empirically measurable with respect to the actual packages. I do object to using popular vote, because such a package would fail to achieve any of the intended goals. Should all objections made on technical grounds now be considered censorship? Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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