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Debian Package Request for GPC-Slots 2 Rejected - Unfairly?

posted by janrinok on Sunday November 23 2014, @09:19PM   Printer-friendly
from the no-love-for-trolls dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

The Debian project has suffered from a long string of negative events recently, ranging from severe discontent over the inclusion of systemd, to talk of forking the project, to a grave bug affecting the important 'wine' package, to the resignation and reduced involvement of long time contributors.

The latest strife affecting Debian revolves around a request for a Debian package of the GPC-Slots 2 software. This request has been rejected with little more than an ad hominem attack against the software's author.

In response to the request, Stephen Gran wrote,

This is code by someone who routinely trolls Debian. I doubt we want any more poisonous upstreams in Debian, so I at least would prefer this never get packaged.

Jonathan Wiltshire proceeded to mark the request as 'wontfix', and closed it.

While Debian does strive to maintain high standards regarding the software it packages, the negative and personal nature of this rejection, without any apparent technical or licensing concerns, appears to conflict with Debian's own Code of Conduct. Such a personal attack could be seen as contradictory to the Code of Conduct's mandate that Debian participants "Be respectful", "Be collaborative", and most importantly, "Assume good faith".

Given its recent troubles as of late, many of them concerning the poor treatment of Debian developers and users alike, can Debian really afford to get embroiled in yet another negative incident?

 
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 23 2014, @10:09PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 23 2014, @10:09PM (#119213)

    I don't think there's any conspiracy here about people moving from Debian to FreeBSD.

    Debian was one of the last good and modern Linux distros to not use systemd. Now that it's infected, where else are Linux users supposed to go? Slackware? Gentoo? They may be okay for some former Debian users, but Slackware is pretty behind the times, and Gentoo is a pain in the ass to use.

    FreeBSD is the natural alternative. It's the most general purpose of the BSDs, and offers many of the benefits that Debian offers, plus some. It's still provides a pretty familiar environment for somebody experienced with Linux, but it also offers a really good packaging and ports system, plus great reliability, great security, and many other things.