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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?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 24 2014, @02:40AM
oh ffs.... sudo apt-get remove packagethatoffendsme
2 seconds later I no longer deal with it and it consumes 0 space from my harddrive.
Are you that thin skinned?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 24 2014, @08:48AM
Let's play Devil's Advocate then shall we?
Debian let's the package in, some feminist hears about it and rallys their SJW crowd into action.
Linux is then labeled the misogynist troll OS, good job!
Yeah, I'd tell the guy to fuck off just to avoid that shitstorm too.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 25 2014, @03:08AM
The feminists have allready taken over every linux distro.
So what are you talking about.
They launched their attack years ago and were successful