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 <edbarx@???> 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 <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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