Re: Can the community team remove packages or kick me out for not removing packages?
Hi Didier,
On Thu, 17 Jul 2025, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote:
> Let me offer you a different perspective: through the past conversations
> around the offensive variant of the fortunes packages (in english), the
> project has converged towards considering that this is not a package that it
> wants to ship to its users. (How this convergence happened, and whether you
> agree with the end-result are not relevant.)
I have a different proposal then "just" removing the package:
How about offering another Server with the packages some people might
think being offensive?
(debian-rest or so...)
like debian-multimedia in earlier years. Then you do not ship it, but
can accept that Debian has these packages and can offer it to people
who want to have it.
because as we see at discussions with the community team, there are a
lot of different views when is something offensive or insulting. my
personal view is that everything is allowed as long as it is not
forbidden _by law_ (and/or court), as long as you are not forced to
use it. and I would like to see Debian behave the same. Therefore, I
suggest creating a different package server. if necessary, I will
offer it on my own hardware/infrastructure. I hope Marc would help me
set it up properly ;)
best regards, Hanno Wagner
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