Hi, thanks for your comment.
I am surprised by the fact that my 'protestware' in the toy program xsnow causes such a fuzz. On one hand, the protestware is noticed, and that is exactly I was aiming for. On the other hand, people are concerned that the items shown by xsnow can cause problems for the users of the program. I understand, but if a user sees items that could cause problems for him/her it is very easy to halt the program, remove it and don't use it any more. I am sure there are a lot of programs and web sites who's behavior could have negative consequences for the user, and xsnow is only one of them. So, what to do? - Debian can decide to remove the program from the repo. That is no problem for me. - I could put a version to Debian, without the protestware. I will do that when something is settled. Again, xsnow is just a toy, nobody needs to use it. Regards, Willem On 6/30/26 22:09, Salvo 'LtWorf' Tomaselli wrote:
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
