• federalreverse-old@feddit.deOP
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    6 months ago

    Afaiu it, he added a second package with (quote) “all the crap” later, after the storm.

    And no, it wasn’t just the favicons feature that was removed (which like … is that really such a big privacy issue that you need to remove it from the binary?). Support for Yubikey was removed as well — which is not a privacy issue. The reasoning mentioned by the Debian maintainer is that all of these features might turn out to be security issues in the long run. Thus, in his view, a password manager application must do nothing but provide access to the database within the app.

    I find it an interesting example of diverging upstream, maintainer, and user interests in any case.

    • lemmyvore@feddit.nl
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      6 months ago

      I find it a lot of unnecessary fuss over unstable. Sid is supposed to make breaking changes, you offer feedback and you follow it through politely. The next Debian stable is one year away, this is not an urgent matter

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        There are so many people who think sid is a distro when really, as far as the Debian project is concerned, it is a staging ground.