The debian-private mailing list leak, part 1. Volunteers have complained about Blackmail. Lynchings. Character assassination. Defamation. Cyberbullying. Volunteers who gave many years of their lives are picked out at random for cruel social experiments. The former DPL's girlfriend Molly de Blanc is given volunteers to experiment on for her crazy talks. These volunteers never consented to be used like lab rats. We don't either. debian-private can no longer be a safe space for the cabal. Let these monsters have nowhere to hide. Volunteers are not disposable. We stand with the victims.

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Re: I'm back



Bruce Perens wrote:
> 
> This is not for public disclosure yet, but the MkLinux group at Apple
> (they didn't get laid off!) will probably give us a Power Mac to put on
> the net at one of our sites for building Debian packages. 

_Very_ cool.

> Some people accosted me who are trying to put Posix packages in RPM and
> suggested that Debian do it too. They had a copy of the standard and I
> took a few minutes to leaf through it. Posix packages are tar archives
> containing control files. They would be a cinch to do in dpkg. They
> don't do dependencies, so we would have to extend them, and I'd like to
> coordinate that with Erik when done.

This could be an interesting project.  Rather than have Debian surrender
to rpm (or have RedHat surrender to dpkg) we might be able to support
a less-complicated standard as a universal middle ground for commercial
packages.  Are the relevent standards available anywhere online, or
do you have to shell out $ for them?

--Galen