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#1 Re: Devuan » RFC: Boobian » 2018-12-21 23:18:23

Particularly as a (in the process of being former) Debian user I am concerned what some of the packages which I am using also have offensive (purposely or not) names (think of libass for subtitles).

And it could became such situation as it was in Fedora some years ago, when they had quite a lot of packages but a some useful one were missing as they were non-free and so they were not being officially supported and users had to connect some third-party repositories (maintained by smaller group of eyes).

And now in Debian it comes to a situation where it will have a lot of packages in the official repositories, but some of the useful ones will be not present (and won't be able to present officially) so users again will have to deal with third-party repos (or building packages locally).

And I'm saying above just solely from the practical side, without touching user's freedoms.

#2 Re: Devuan » RFC: Boobian » 2018-12-21 04:05:45

Because for solving technical questions just searching forum, reading wiki and mans is enough, but for things like that yeah, i need write permission so I had to register.

And also, the most important question (from which I should probably start): if WebOOB package be still shipped by Devuan?

#3 Re: Devuan » RFC: Boobian » 2018-12-21 03:14:58

Sorry, I wasn't aware of  a discussion going on IRC, are there any outcomes of this discussion or is it still going on some channel?

Also could you please share the link?

#4 Devuan » RFC: Boobian » 2018-12-21 02:13:30

Will W.
Replies: 7

After a recent precedent in Debian community where package was removed from repository for non-technical reason[1] I expect more users to escape from Debian because of not accepting such politicized decisions (especially keeping in mind what the package which was a subject to deletion was allowing to grab information from websites without seeing advertisements, so the real reasons behind removing it are not clear).

So to advertise what Devuan is a really free community, not only free from corporate invasion of systemd but also free of pushing political agendas into world of free software I suggest to rename project to ironical name "Boobian".

[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo … =907199#47

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