Whoaaaa, Edward, get down! Let me ship you one of my tinfoil hats so that I'm not the only one wearing one.
SteveT On Wed, 2 Dec 2015 11:53:07 +0100 Edward Bartolo <[email protected]> wrote: > Jaromil, > > In my opinion Debian are acting like a commercial entity: they want > their clients to get used to any 'inevitable changes' in their > products. This can also be seen as another stab in the back to > projects promoting software freedom like Devuan. > > My 'little' opinion if that counts. > > Edward > > On 02/12/2015, Jaromil <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Wed, 02 Dec 2015, Mitt Green wrote: > > > >> Good day everyone, > >> > >> As some of you have probably > >> noticed, Unstable had received > >> their updates for APT, version 1.1. > >> It had been in Experimental for long time > >> and now it landed. > >> > >> Starting from this version pinning > >> (i.e. preventing from being installed) > >> packages this way: > >> ------------------------------------------- > >> Package: foo > >> Pin: release * > >> Pin-Priority: -1 > >> ------------------------------------------- > >> doesn't work anymore. > > > > Are there alternatives for preventing packages to be installed? > > > > We need to decide if to incorporate this change also into Devuan. > > > > Many people will be negatively affected by yet another limitation of > > their freedom, being now unable to choose if a certain package > > should be installed on their system. > > > > I am wondering what is Debian's rationale to do something like that? > > anyone has more insights? > > > > We are not affected: Devuan has never relied on pinning to protect > > our freedom from the systemd avalanche, but some people do and this > > move looks like the DD's left in the Debian project want to shovel > > their decisions down the throat of all users. > > > > ciao > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Dng mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng > > > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
