Re: CoC policy for package contents (was: Re: Can the community team remove packages or kick me out for not removing packages?)

On 2025-07-21 Wouter Verhelst <[email protected]> wrote:
[...]
> - The code of conduct applies to all program messages or documentation
>   texts that could be seen by a user in the normal use of a Debian
>   system, as well as to anything written by a Debian developer for the
>   Debian project. However, the following exceptions apply:
>   - Quotes by historic people when provided in appropriate context,
>   - Historic texts that are widely disemminated outside of Debian.
[...]

Hello,

thank you for bringing this up.

Looking at the CoC again imho it just does not apply to this
purpose. The CoC is all about interaction between people while this is
more like a one-way-street. With a quite a bit fantasy I might be able
to adjust about 40% of the CoC for this purpose.  How can my editor's
error message be "collaborative" or "open"? Having a ruleset with 60%
chaff is asking for trouble/overwide application. I would rather have
something much narrower which could not be misused to e.g. prevent
shipping doom.

cu Andreas