On 99-12-25 Joseph Carter wrote: > On Sat, Dec 25, 1999 at 07:13:37PM +0100, Christian Kurz wrote: > > > Well, the ftp maintainer and the mirror maintainers would have to to > > > implement any sort of "distributed distribution" solution. [And, it > > > occurs to me that German sites, if they had problems, could simply exclude > > > from mirroring and package which has the name of a problematic package.] > > > > Yeah but this put's more load on the FTP- and Mirror-Maintainer and I > > think they are not quite happy about this extra load. So why can't we > > use a solution like we did with qmail? > I've tried to be nice in this discussion. I'm no longer trying. > I WILL NOT CRIPPLE MY QUAKE PACKAGES TO SATISFY THE STUPIDITY INHERENT IN > THE LAWS OF EXACTLY TWO COUNTRIES IN THE ENTIRE WORLD THAT I KNOW OF. I > CONSIDER THE LAWS THEMSELVES CENSORSHIP AT THEIR CORE AND THEREFORE > MORALLY REPREHENSIBLE. > Is that perhaps a little clearer? I never said that someone should cripple a package. Stop assuming things that I don't say. And also I'm not talking about censorship. I'm just reminding you that some FTP-Maintainer may stand half in jail because they don't have the f****ng time to go through the whole debian archive for excluding every software that's illegal in their country. We should provide them with a possible solution for excluding such a software, because you can change a government in one day or because some people think they are more important. Ciao Christian P.S.: I wonder what you would do if you are such a maintainer who could be with half an leg in jail. -- ******************************************************************** * Christian Kurz Debian Developer/QA-Team * * Use Debian - a free Operating System * ********************************************************************
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