Re: XLibre in Debian

["Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>]

On Fri, 2025-10-03 at 10:20 -0700, Soren Stoutner wrote:
> On Friday, October 3, 2025 9:27:03 AM Mountain Standard Time Gunnar
> Wolf 
> wrote:
> > 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.
[...]
> I sinncerely hope that Debian never goes down the very dangerous path
> of banning software in Debian because of what developers do outside
> of Debian.  

To be clear, the actions that Gunnar is describing here were *not*
"outside of Debian".

Regards,

Adam