Re: Bug#775436: ITP: xlennart -- An XBill fork but with Lennart and SystenD instead of Bill and Wingdows
On 2015-01-16 07:29, Dmitry Yu Okunev wrote:
> I think it is not going farther than XBill. Permitting of XBill and
> forbidding of XLennart making double standards. Forbid both or permit both.
Adding software to the archive increases the overall maintenance burden
for the project. The question of whether a new software BAR should be
accepted into the archive, when a software FOO already exists which does
the exact same thing, is a very common one.
> Moreover I don't see any offense or problem if somebody will create game
> XDmitryYuOkunev (Dmitry Yu Okunev is my name). And what does Debian
> constitution says? It forbids such packages?
Such a package would almost certainly be a violation of the CoC:
https://www.debian.org/code_of_conduct
> I don't like mix politics and FOSS. FOSS is freedom. IMHO, nobody should
> forbid anybody to distribute any free package due to politics or
> something like this. Sorry if Debian thinks another way.
Please realize that politics is the *only* purpose of this software.
It's the xbill software, modified *only* to express hostility towards a
different person. There is zero FOSS advancement in this package.
> Right now personally my interest is to learn how to Debianize projects
> (create and maintain Debian packages). So I won't protect this project.
> There's a great lot of another software for such practice :)
That would be infinitely more beneficial to yourself, and to the project.
Debian is a fun place to be, and it's fun to improve it even more. There
are so many more useful and exciting things to do than to waste time on
something that only adds hostility.
If you do intend to move on to something else, please remember to close
this bug by sending a mail to 775436-done@bugs.debian.org.
Regards,
Christian
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