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Problematic

Posted Jun 30, 2026 14:03 UTC (Tue) by patrakov (subscriber, #97174)
In reply to: Problematic by cen
Parent article: Xsnow "protestware" in Debian

Debian already had a case in the past where they removed a package with early protestware - but in that earlier case, it was a protest by upstream against Debian packaging practices. Upstream deliberately broke the package for every Debian user except the maintainer. I am talking about micq.

Problematic - article in question

Posted Jun 30, 2026 14:06 UTC (Tue) by jzb (editor, #7867) [Link]

Huh. I had either missed that or have completely forgotten about it... either is entirely possible. Looks like we covered it, though: "The trojaning of mICQ", February 18, 2003. Wish I'd known/remembered it when I was writing the article; that would have been a good thing to include. Thank you much for the comment!