Your message dated Wed, 6 Apr 2016 19:55:07 +0100
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and subject line Re: Bug#820105: xscreensaver: please consider removal from sid
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regarding xscreensaver: please consider removal from sid
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Package: xscreensaver
Version: 5.34-1
Severity: grave
Tags: upstream
Hi,
The upstream maintainer of xscreensaver has explicitly asked Debian
to stop shipping it, which is a shame of course:
https://www.jwz.org/blog/2016/04/i-would-like-debian-to-stop-shipping-xscreensaver/
It *is* still a free software project, based on freely-licensed works of
many authors. Debian obviously may choose to ship it in any case, and
I'm sure it will continue to do so in wheezy-lts and jessie.
Removal from sid did sound extreme to me at first, but going forward,
software projects do need an upstream maintainer, and currently he
chooses to be hostile:
Bug #819703 was a deliberate annoyance / anti-feature that impacted many
of our users, and will create work for the package maintainer and stable
release managers to resolve. Even if it is only minor, it would not
stand if Debian allowed that sort of thing to proliferate in all
software in its stable releases.
CVEs are not filed for security bugs and code commits don't seem to be
split out individually in any public repository, making security support
in stable releases problematic. (similar to the Oracle-MySQL situation)
Newer upstream versions add advertising for the upstream maintainer's
commercial ventures. The logos of DNA Lounge, DNA Pizza and Codeword
seem likely to be non-free by the DFSG. Their removal could further
incense the upstream maintainer, more-so than removing the package.
Thanks for your consideration.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: kfreebsd-amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: kFreeBSD 10.1-0-amd64
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
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