On 2025-08-06, Henrik Ahlgren <[email protected]> wrote: > Maytham Alsudany <[email protected]> writes: > >> P.S. I've already seen a post in the Debian subreddit[1] and an >> article[2] about this thread; it should not be getting this much >> notoriety/coverage.. It also amuses me how the comments of a few people >> who happen to be DDs (e.g. myself, stardict package maintainer) are >> being represented as the position of Debian as a whole. > > Everyone seems to be quite concerned about the notion that the servers > are located in China (which does not appear to be accurate for > dict.youdao.com when accessed from, for instance, Europe). This > perspective sounds overly alarmist and misses the main issue – I believe > that the default behavior is unacceptable regardless of who operates the > server and its location. >
If you are a Debian package maintainer, and your package is in Debian stable, then it is natural for users to assume the behavior of your package is acceptable to Debian as a whole. This is no cause for blithe and condescending amusement.
