On Sun, Nov 2, 2025 at 5:36 AM <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 02, 2025 at 02:45:31AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > > On 11/2/25 1:35 AM, [email protected] wrote: > > > > OK to point out that a question touches a non-Debian distribution, and > > > to refer people to other channels when things become too (non-Debian) > > > specific, one of the strengths of Debian is its wide scope. Raising > > > fences sometimes does more damage than good. > > > > > > Just some point to mull about. > > > > > Agreed. > > Consider, is the question raised actually a "Linux question"? > > Those must be considered "on topic". > > This would be too broad, IMO. Don't forget that Debian is a volunteer > organisation, its infrastructure running off donations. Would you find > it OK to (ab) use that infrastructure to provide support for users of > highly commercial endeavours, just because their (well resourced!) > overlords skimp on that? (Examples: Amazon, Ubuntu, Oracle, diverse > Androids)? > > So I think it's OK to be also able to say "stop: this is an Oracle > Linux question. Please go to their channels).
++. Otherwise, we have to endure messages like "Help with my question, please" (September 2025), <https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2025/09/msg00530.html>. The post is trying to figure out a password for a Raspberry Pi device. > It's only the "strict" part I'm not friends with. Jeff
