On March 18, 2024 9:19:21 AM UTC, Dominik George <naturesha...@debian.org>
wrote:
>Hi,
>
>>FYI: This message got delivered at the public mailing list
>>debian-python@lists.debian.org. To me it looks like someone if trying to find
>>a loophole in launchpad and plans to abuse the system.
>
>Thanks for reaching out to them.
>
>While at it, I'd also question why Canonical is scraping public repositories
>and creating user accounts for the scraped addresses.
>
>Yes, I know why they do it, but for me, it is another example of bad
>collaboration practice, on top of everything else to be said about Ubuntu (or
>more precisely, its owners).
>
>It's also small things that impose burdens on others, and if they think they
>need to fork Debian, copy packages from it (to put behind a paywall
>afterwards), then they certainly could do that without spoofing Debian people
>and team addresses.
>
>Disclaimer: I am assuming good faith in this specific case, but not in
>Canonical and Ubuntu in general.
>
It's not from scraping. It's from the maintainer field in packages that they
import from Debian.
This probably isn't the place to have that argument. I have raised this with
them before. The first time was probably over a decade ago.
Scott K
