Re: XLibre in Debian
Soren Stoutner dijo [Thu, Oct 02, 2025 at 05:02:13PM -0700]:
Like I said, I know nothing about XLibre or its history. But I think it is
important to state here that I am categorically opposed to any software being
excluded from Debian because of the politics of the developers (as long as
those politics are not included in the software itself).
There are some things we don't want to drop in public channels.
There is known history of the XLibre authors actively conducting a hate
campaign that resulted in a strong personal prejudice (economically and
socially) to a Debian Developer, and that campaign carried on to try to
further harm them.
Of course I am not talking in the name of the project. I cannot.
But I strongly support Debian not willing to engage with toxic developers.
To be clear, I am not saying that anyone *has* to package this software.
Also, I am not saying that Debian should accept any software that is below
its technical standards (an argument that nobody has yet made regarding
XLibre).
I hope nobody will do the quite nontrivial technical work to get this
packaging done. And I would not be surprised if our ftp-master team (or
whatever it is called by then) eventually refuses to include in Debian
software that's more a liability than anything else.
– Gunnar.
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