Your message dated Fri, 24 Jul 2026 16:43:17 +0200
with message-id <[email protected]>
and subject line Re: Bug#1141182: xsnow 1:3.9.3-1 marked for autoremoval from
testing, but the problem has been fixed
has caused the Debian Bug report #1141182,
regarding xsnow can cause users to get a beating
to be marked as done.
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1141182: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1141182
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Package: xsnow
Version: 1:3.8.6-1
Severity: critical
Tags: upstream
Justification: breaks the whole system
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
Dear Maintainer,
apparently according to this comment https://lwn.net/Articles/1080157/ people
using xsnow in the wrong room could end up getting beaten up, or losing their
job.
I am opening this bug since the original reporter did not, but I do not think
Debian users who happen to live in a country ruled by a government I personally
disapprove of should face such severe consequences.
Best
-- System Information:
Debian Release: forky/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 7.0.12+deb14.1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages xsnow depends on:
ii libc6 2.42-17
ii libcairo2 1.18.4-3+b1
ii libgcc-s1 16.1.0-2
ii libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0 2.44.6+dfsg-2
ii libglib2.0-0t64 2.88.2-1
ii libgsl28 2.8+dfsg-6+b1
ii libgtk-3-0t64 3.24.52-1
ii libstdc++6 16.1.0-2
ii libx11-6 2:1.8.13-1
ii libxext6 2:1.3.4-1+b4
ii libxinerama1 2:1.1.4-3+b5
ii libxpm4 1:3.5.19-1
ii libxtst6 2:1.2.5-1+b2
xsnow recommends no packages.
xsnow suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: xsnow
Source-Version: 1:3.9.3-1
On Fri, Jul 24, 2026 at 09:01:00AM +0200, Willem Vermin wrote:
> I see that xsnow 1:3.9.3-1 is marked for autoremoval from testing, but the
> offending code
> (xsnow: xsnow can cause users to get a beating) has been removed in this
> version.
>
> What can I do to prevent autoremoval?
The bug needs to be marked as fixed in the version that fixed it.
Usually this is done by adding the text "(Closes: #1141182)" into
the debian/changelog entry. This gets picked up by dpkg-buildpackage
and then the archive software.
Chris
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