Just one other example: On Fri, Mar 05, 2021 at 05:19:01PM +0100, Drew Parsons wrote: > On 2021-03-05 16:52, Andreas Tille wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 05, 2021 at 09:52:47AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > > > > > > It seems unlikely that upstream will have changed their mind, it <snip> > > So there's no legal (or technical) reason to not package, just > the social reason that doing so will gain the ire of the author. > > There is precedence: the author of cdrtools was extremely hostile to > packaging, > https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/08/msg00113.html > https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/08/msg00320.html > https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/08/msg00653.html > > Eventually we had to just drop cdrtools (and consequently xcdroast) > https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/08/msg00775.html
And there was https://www.jwz.org/blog/2016/04/i-would-like-debian-to-stop-shipping-xscreensaver/ , 5 years ago. We decided to ship it anyway. Bye, Joost
