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Problematic

Posted Jun 29, 2026 21:42 UTC (Mon) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523)
In reply to: Problematic by jzb
Parent article: Xsnow "protestware" in Debian

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.