Re: Bug#192553: ITP: debianarchist -- info and tools for subversion within the Debian domain.
Matthew Palmer <mjp16@ieee.uow.edu.au> writes:
> On Fri, 9 May 2003, John Belmonte wrote:
>
> > Andreas Happe wrote:
> > > where are the differences to the anarchism package?
> >
> > At the risk of stating the obvious, the anarchism package contains the
> > document "An Anarchist FAQ" and is about anarchism. The debianarchist
> > package contains documents and programs from
> > http://memebeam.org/debianarchist/ and pertains to debianarchism.
>
> If the debianarchist package will simply contain what's on the website you
> gave, I don't really see the point of putting one webpage and script of
> dubious point into a debian package.
>
> Those against archive bloat may wish to take a close look at this one... <g>
I have not only bloat concerns, but I seriously question the sanity of
the author. In fact, it looks like somebody is just trolling. May I
quote from http://memebeam.org/debianarchist/1/:
The unseasoned among us might think this contradicts wording in the
the DFSG such as "The rights attached to the program must not depend
on the program's being part of a Debian system". Fortunately, that
document entangles and contradicts itself such that no single
fragment wields any power. Remember that the protection offered to
the spirit of a such a document is inversely proportional to the
number of words contained therein.
If the author really thinks that the DFSG are so seriously flawed as
to be meaningless, the right place to discuss this are the Debian
mailing lists. Until the author clarifies his intentions, I object to
letting this get into Debian.
Lukas
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