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 <jaromil@???> 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
>
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