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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: 3, Informative) by Bot on Sunday November 23 2014, @10:11PM

    by Bot (3902) on Sunday November 23 2014, @10:11PM (#119215) Journal

    https://lists.debian.org/debian-women/2009/10/msg00011.html [debian.org]
    https://encyclopediadramatica.se/MikeeUSA [encyclopediadramatica.se]
    http://geekfeminism.org/2009/10/08/psa-mikeeusas-hate-speech-and-harassment/ [geekfeminism.org]

    It seems this guy. Now, I am not even reading these links because the guy uses codeplex to host the source. That's enough for me to raise the antennas.

    Thirdly, a perl console game needs an official debian package? Even if it was written by larry wall I'd give it a low priority.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 24 2014, @12:56AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 24 2014, @12:56AM (#119269)

    Thirdly, a perl console game needs an official debian package? Even if it was written by larry wall I'd give it a low priority.

    Yes, because Perl is terrible!

    He should rewrite it in Go or Ruby so the hipsters will be more accepting.

    • (Score: 2) by meisterister on Monday November 24 2014, @06:00PM

      by meisterister (949) on Monday November 24 2014, @06:00PM (#119488) Journal

      Or he should rewrite it in an actual language like C. *ducks behind neckbeard and irony proof wall*

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