Re: Concerning uniliateral decision making with respect to the coreutils package

Andrey Rakhmatullin <[email protected]> Thu, 9 Jul 2026 20:50:47 +0500

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.devel.general
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On Thu, Jul 09, 2026 at 06:43:26PM +0300, Hakan Bayındır wrote:
>Let me put another forward-looking statement: Big Linux vendors might stop sharing source packages for their versions of uutils, and may even bake in DRM and/or “user-watching analytics” features into them to TiVoize their distributions

Please do not.

>Am I (or others putting this possibility forward) blowing this out of proportion, too?

Yes, clearly.


-- 
WBR, wRAR

signature.asc (application/pgp-signature, 894 B)

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----

iQJhBAABCgBLFiEEtf6ieDcfC1EgtGkao+OWn23e7IYFAmpPw1EtFIAAAAAAFQAP
cGthLWFkZHJlc3NAZ251cGcub3Jnd3JhckBkZWJpYW4ub3JnAAoJEKPjlp9t3uyG
Y58P/1RGiwkyAdUvpMEoKVtGG2ES5jd7wlF4l/8nlFVfop52MBGb/dLAWOanUebU
E9i8JGyxyQ7IUPEwm7BswsBgnHZYo4b3IcrXhX2OSlp9rF6MZFeCM95/geEcsY89
VZJAsKOZDfzi7/UWOsd6tZGs6ZtqcP8UN/ZGuA6oI2clEdrEg2p3YpoNynKco3KA
69JTj00iEnAr8KE2pidS5KUeJYyZ8OfFbY4C/yxV8rgAVi3K+RnqG0tEJSDlSUBJ
/mQEcnqeV2A2RPyrLxDFq7tSe58Ffj80aJgCvxgoGC+SeaL0r5VXVStomEw9Tvoy
KCXEj6ijw8ySSz45XACOC9ifmQc8sWq6r9E+PR/2K9Ppmt0mPjyMPcHV3dME2iFc
BL9Hj9TUQRIk1u3EttxWiL5jE6zYC+wqQpf8efQBiMnrjkGd8AFcFQ7vyP7fLwX9
DqEhfLQjwciwKFWHCxCGjwksCoZqs9tcdHfhcxva/E3gCpSyPnejoOTY+6GkevNa
bS5AhAZKVMmVptEEusVqhVL2LJ99adRII/bOhUbvGxhRc/0pTl1tn2eLuf8WsWRC
JlKMmVrgZwPmUj15ehF+jVJ5L+4WPuI2X8aRHwf2GdvEq1zkZQ51MAXbgfGUsFva
YN9qaMhBCHtYg5xqzVKQWZullBtsWO2s1W042NU6BqBfI/pP
=Ftw7
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----