On Sat, 14 Mar 2026 at 14:36, Salvo Tomaselli <[email protected]> wrote:
> > - debian should decide the law doesnt apply to it > > - debian should accept the consequences of breaking laws it doesnt agree > with > > - debian should choose to break laws it doesnt agree with > > - debian should encourage users to break a law > > - debian should encourage users who do not like a law to live somewhere > with different lawss > > - debian should encourage users who not agree with a law to not use > debian > > - debian should somehow get the law changed > > - something else? > > Debian has no way to force all application developers to request the > age bracket signal and probably has no resources to patch all of them > to do it. It seems to me that the decision is between telling users in > such places to please not use debian or just completely ignore it. I think that is exactly part of the problem: Debian is structurally a poor fit for this model. If Debian cannot realistically compel the application ecosystem to consume such a signal, that is not an argument for embedding the mechanism in the base system anyway. It is evidence that this kind of mandate is fundamentally mismatched to Debian’s nature as a general-purpose free software project. In other words, if the model does not even fit Debian in practical terms, that is one more reason not to normalize it there.
