Le Fri, May 15, 2026 at 12:08:36PM +0200, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues a écrit : > > So I think we can talk about policies we'd like to have in Debian about what > we > want to ship and what not.
Thanks! By being concrete about what we can do, we ease the discussion and the action. For instance, "we should not link to the homepage" alone is obviously not a good solution to the problem: packages without homepage attract people who want to contribute to Debian by fixing the problem. And we do not want to expose them to racist propaganda. Also, there is the "Streisand effect" to consider. So we can: - replace the Homepage field of the package by a placeholder, - or by a link to our diversity statement, - or remove the Homepage field and add a lintian override to explain the reason. Just "racism" is enough. - maybe other people have better ideas? For the justification, anybody with a language model can verify themselves without reading the text. I tried with Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.3-Q4_K_M.gguf and llama.cpp on a Debian laptop; it works. (slowly) Finally I would think twice about removing packages unless upstreams are hostile to us. For instance, I have started to screen all the homepages of our packages and found at least another one with clear racist statemnts. But I forsee that going through each case one by one, each with their specificities and divisive effects that will take time to heal if they heal at all, will be excruciating. Have a nice week-end, Charles -- Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan, Okinawa, Japan Debian Med packaging team http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tooting from home https://framapiaf.org/@charles_plessy - You do not have my permission to use this email to train an AI -
