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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: 1, Offtopic) by Arik on Sunday November 23 2014, @11:14PM

    by Arik (4543) on Sunday November 23 2014, @11:14PM (#119237) Journal
    "Not because the guy is an antifeminist."

    Now that seems like an interesting caveat. Are we to take it that this person has been categorized as a 'troll' because he has dissented from SJMW dogma in regard to gender?
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 23 2014, @11:23PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 23 2014, @11:23PM (#119242)

    It would appear so!

  • (Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Monday November 24 2014, @01:18AM

    by hemocyanin (186) on Monday November 24 2014, @01:18AM (#119273) Journal

    What does the "M" stand for. And yes, I did RTFG but nothing made sense in this context.

    • (Score: 2) by Arik on Monday November 24 2014, @01:40AM

      by Arik (4543) on Monday November 24 2014, @01:40AM (#119276) Journal
      It stands for "Social Justice Media Warrior [unz.com]"
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      If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?

      • (Score: 2) by pogostix on Monday November 24 2014, @02:00AM

        by pogostix (1696) on Monday November 24 2014, @02:00AM (#119281)

        This comment is so pleasing to my eyes. Must be the font.

  • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 24 2014, @03:11AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 24 2014, @03:11AM (#119297)

    How the heck is the parent comment off-topic? Debian's beef with the programmer of this software in question apparently revolves around feminism.

    Can somebody please do the right thing and fix the modding of the parent comment? It's absolutely on-topic!