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Posted Jun 29, 2026 16:03 UTC (Mon) by farnz (subscriber, #17727)
In reply to: Problematic by cen
Parent article: Xsnow "protestware" in Debian

Note that the code in question is also in the upstream package. It's not a Debian-specific modification.

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Posted Jun 29, 2026 16:40 UTC (Mon) by jzb (editor, #7867) [Link] (4 responses)

Sorry if that did not come through clearly enough in the article. Yes, it's in upstream xsnow as well. Not sure exactly which version it landed in, but it's not unique to Debian.

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Posted Jun 29, 2026 21:42 UTC (Mon) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523) [Link] (3 responses)

The Debian maintainer is the upstream author, AFAICS.
However, as I said, as long as nobody is willing to fill a bug report, the issue is moot.
It seems a bit dishonest to complain to debian-devel without ever bothering to fill a bug report, IMHO.

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Posted Jun 30, 2026 20:45 UTC (Tue) by LtWorf (subscriber, #124958) [Link] (2 responses)

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1141182

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Posted Jun 30, 2026 21:52 UTC (Tue) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523) [Link] (1 responses)

Your bug report is short on technical detail. You do not explain how to reproduce the bug or what exactly happens.
I do not see how Debian can fix it.

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Posted Jul 1, 2026 17:17 UTC (Wed) by edgewood (subscriber, #1123) [Link]

Apparently, it was enough for the author/maintainer, as he's considered the alternatives and decided to remove the protestware.

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Posted Jun 29, 2026 16:59 UTC (Mon) by cen (subscriber, #170575) [Link]

I wasn't aware this was an upstream change. That changes things and makes my comment irrelavant. Thanks for the clarification.