Re: XLibre in Debian

Soren Stoutner <[email protected]> Fri, 03 Oct 2025 09:31:10 -0700

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.devel.project
Organization	Debian
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On Friday, October 3, 2025 5:38:39 AM Mountain Standard Time Michael Stone 
wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 02, 2025 at 05:02:13PM -0700, Soren Stoutner wrote:
> >Like I said, I know nothing about XLibre or its history.  But I think it is
> >important to state here that I am categorically opposed to any software 
being
> 
> Great! You've made your statement, and also acknowledged that you don't
> know anything about the topic at hand. Let's just leave it there.

My point is that it is important to defend the principles upon which Debian is 
founded.  This relates to both XLibre and any other project, which is why the 
statements I made are generic in nature and not based on any specific defense 
of XLibre.

If people do want to talk specifics about why XLibre should be blacklisted, 
then they need to bring up specific reasons why.  Since I wrote the the 
statement quoted above, a few specifics have been brought up in this thread.  
But, as has already been said by one other person, nothing in those specifics 
come close to justification for preventing software written by the developers 
of XLibre from being included in Debian if someone wants to do the work to 
package it.

-- 
Soren Stoutner
[email protected]

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