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Re: Questionable Package Present in Debian: fortune-mod

From Dominik George <natureshadow@debian.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.project, linux.debian.devel
Subject Re: Questionable Package Present in Debian: fortune-mod
Date 2023-08-19 19:20 +0200
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>The mission you have chosen for yourself, then, is to identify all those
>things in the Debian distribution that are not constitutive of an
>operating system.

That is a major part of the work of a Debian Developer, and the ftp-master team.

Packages are evaluated for eligibility to enter the distribution all the time, we had times where every new binary package was frowned upon due to resource constraints on the archive.

If I uploaded fortunes-natureshadow because I think my favourite quotes are worth being shipped with an operating system, I am pretty sure it would get rejected.

There is no reason to handle fortunes-off any different.

-nik

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Re: Questionable Package Present in Debian: fortune-mod "G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com> - 2023-08-19 03:40 +0200
  Debian is not X (was Re: Questionable Package Present in Debian: fortune-mod) Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> - 2023-08-19 18:10 +0200
  Re: Questionable Package Present in Debian: fortune-mod Dominik George <natureshadow@debian.org> - 2023-08-19 19:20 +0200
    Re: Questionable Package Present in Debian: fortune-mod "Paul R. Tagliamonte" <paultag@gmail.com> - 2023-08-19 20:40 +0200
      Re: Questionable Package Present in Debian: fortune-mod Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2023-08-19 23:00 +0200
    Re: Questionable Package Present in Debian: fortune-mod Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2023-08-19 23:00 +0200
      Re: Questionable Package Present in Debian: fortune-mod Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org> - 2023-08-21 18:20 +0200
        Re: Questionable Package Present in Debian: fortune-mod Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2023-08-21 20:00 +0200

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