I do not agree with the removal of the xscreensaver package. Thankfully, when writing down his wish regarding this particular piece of code, the author made sure to write that he did not mean to derogate the user freedoms provided by the license he chose:
> Of course, my license allows you to ignore me and do whatever the > fuck you want, but as the author, I hope you will have the common > courtesy of complying with my request. He just confirmed to us that he still stands by those words as well. So, in the end, he values user freedom above his wish that we either keep the warning or remove the software from our distribution. This deserves our respect and gratitude. Considering the issue at hand, I think we should exercise that user freedom now by disabling the warning while keeping the software in our distribution. For jessie/stable I think there is even no other choice. At the same time, we could try to make up for not having the "common courtesy" he expected from us. For example, we could mention "Bug reports:" with a Debian URL above his URL in the About dialog. I think this would greatly reduce the number of bug reports on old versions directed to him, which he named as the main reason behind his original wish. I hope this policy can then be extended to keep xscreensaver in future Debian releases as well.
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