On Thursday, October 2, 2025 2:42:47 PM Mountain Standard Time Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Thu, Oct 02, 2025 at 01:24:48PM -0700, Soren Stoutner wrote: > > On Thursday, October 2, 2025 11:03:07 AM Mountain Standard Time Antoine Le > > > > Gonidec wrote: > > > Le Thu, Oct 02, 2025 at 01:07:43PM +0000, Wojciech Lipinski a écrit : > > > > I would like to ask if there are any plans to include XLibre (fork of > > > > X11) > > > > in Debian. (…) > > > > > > I strongly oppose the inclusion of XLibre or any related tool in Debian. > > > Or, for what it’s worth, the inclusion of anything developed by that team. > > > > Not knowing anything about XLibre or the team that develops it, I am curious > > to know what would cause you to be so opposed to anything developed by that > > team. Indeed, I am not accustomed to Debian categorically rejecting > > software > > that is DFSG-free from inclusion based solely on the team that develops it. > > Soren, > > Other projects - including Fedora and Ubuntu - have issues with the stability > of the code from a single developer. Those projects - and many individuals - > may also disapprove of controversial political opinions from the single > developer. > > On occasion, we *do* take wider considerations into account in the Project > before adopting DFSG-software. > > All the very best, as ever, That is true. I certainly can imagine a scenario where Debian would ban contributions from a particular developer or a team of developers. For example, if they had a track record of *intentionally* trying to introduce security vulnerabilities into Debian. However, I an not personally aware of any of these scenarios ever arising. And certainly, if they did arise, I would expect there would be some discussion about them and such a decision would be documented somewhere. So, as I said, I am not accustomed to Debian categorically rejecting software that is DFSG-free from inclusion based solely on the team that develops it. If there is some reason why that should apply in this case, I would very much like to know what it is. -- Soren Stoutner soren@debian.org
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