Vincent Danjean (not INTERPOL), Claire Bardel & Debian pregnancy cluster
16:30 Sun, 12 Oct 2025
Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock.
On 11 March 2010, shortly before the Debian Day volunteer suicide, a message from Vincent Danjean appeared on the debian-private (leaked gossip network) telling us about his first child.
Is this the same Vincent Danjean who currently heads INTERPOL’s Cyberspace and New Technologies Laboratory? Debian is full of silly police rumours and this could be one of them. I can confirm they have the same name but they are not the same person. Nonetheless, it is worth having a look at the JuristGate crisis, where a brothel operator, Francois Thiébaud, usurped the reputation of the most remarkable French businessman to lead a Swiss watch company.
The next remarkable thing about this message is that Danjean uses the pronoun "it" to refer to his baby daughter. Is she non-binary?
When Dr Norbert Preining used the same pronoun by mistake in 2018, he was immediately expelled, that was the notorious Debian Christmas Lynchings.
Subject: Yet an other people that will use Debian... Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:11:02 +0100 From: Vincent Danjean <vdanjean@debian.org> To: debian-private@lists.debian.org
...but not before a few years.
I'm very please to have a few minutes of free time so that I can tell you that my first daughter Éloïse is born on feb, 5th. She really was missing its dad because she was expected for the next week (march, 16th) ;-) She (and its mother) are perfectly fine. Éloïse that was 1.960kg and 42cm is now about 3kg and 48cm :-) Its growing is really impressive.
It is possible that I will be a bit slow to answer to bugs or mail for the next months... ;-)
Regards, Vincent
-- Vincent Danjean GPG key ID 0x9D025E87 vdanjean@debian.org GPG key fingerprint: FC95 08A6 854D DB48 4B9A 8A94 0BF7 7867 9D02 5E87 Unofficial packages: http://moais.imag.fr/membres/vincent.danjean/deb.html APT repo: deb http://perso.debian.org/~vdanjean/debian unstable main
Danjean's wife is Claire Bardel-Danjean. She has appeared from time to time on Debian mailing lists, sometimes using her maiden name alone, Claire Bardel.
She doesn't currently appear in the reports at contributors.debian.org. However, she is producing software and her husband is packaging it for Debian. This could be a conflict of interest. A Debian package maintainer is supposed to scrutinize the code before putting it into Debian but if a man is uploading code produced by his wife, does he subject it to the same scrutiny as code from independent developers?
To: Charles Plessy <charles-debian-nospam@plessy.org>, 461506@bugs.debian.org Cc: claire.bardel@univ-lyon1.fr Subject: Bug#461506: ITP: altree -- program to perform phylogeny based analyses From: Vincent Danjean <Vincent.Danjean@ens-lyon.org> Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 15:47:11 +0100
Hi,
Charles Plessy wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Charles Plessy <charles-debian-nospam@plessy.org> > > Package name : altree > Version : 1.0.1 > Upstream Author : Claire Bardel <bardel@vjf.inserm.fr>
This email is not valid any more. Please, use this one instead: claire.bardel@univ-lyon1.fr
About its dependencies, you can remove any reference to libcutils-perl and alphy (old packages created by me) Sometimes (or always, I do not remember), altree needs additional dependencies (libnanova-perl and libtamuanova-perl that depend on nanova and tamuanova) that were also packaged by me.
Note: all these packages (but tamuanova) were written by Claire Bardel (who is my wife) and/or me. So I would be glad if you keep me as co-maintainer for these package where I am also upstream :-)
Second note: I did these packages to help their installation on computers used by my wife, so I'm sure they need serious review before being added in Debian (copyright statement, ...).
Best regards, Vincent
> URL : http://claire.bardel.free.fr/software.html > License : GPL > Programming Lang: Perl > Description : program to perform phylogeny based analyses > > This software was designed to perform phylogeny based analysis: first, > it allows the detection of an association between a candidate gene and > a disease, and second, it enables to make hypothesis about the > susceptibility loci. > > The package is already ready: it was prepared by Vincent Danjean, who > offered it to the Debian-Med packaging team. > > http://www-id.imag.fr/Laboratoire/Membres/Danjean_Vincent/deb.html#altree > > Have a nice day, >
-- Vincent Danjean GPG key ID 0x9D025E87 vdanjean@debian.org GPG key fingerprint: FC95 08A6 854D DB48 4B9A 8A94 0BF7 7867 9D02 5E87 Unofficial pacakges: http://www-id.imag.fr/~danjean/deb.html#package APT repo: deb http://perso.debian.org/~vdanjean/debian unstable main
The email about the Danjeans' second baby is quite fascinating because they quote a previous email about the baby of Martin Krafft and Penny Leach. The manner in which these emails are written, using words like "fork" or "release" in the subject line and message body, demonstrates the manner in which their thinking about breeding intersects their thinking about the Debian cult activities. By quoting the email from another couple, they demonstrate the manner in which the breeding mindset bounces around from one couple to the next.
Subject: [semi-vac] a fork yet again Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 22:10:24 +0200 From: Vincent Danjean <vdanjean@debian.org> To: debian-private@lists.debian.org
Hi,
> Veronika Moana, born on her mum's birthday as a healthy and
I got a son, Clément, on 28th, April, one day before his father's birthday. His sister seems happy for now (lets see in a few days when the baby will be at home...) Clément and his mother are healthy. I will probably do the minimum for Debian in the next weeks.
Vincent
-- Vincent Danjean GPG key ID 0x9D025E87 vdanjean@debian.org GPG key fingerprint: FC95 08A6 854D DB48 4B9A 8A94 0BF7 7867 9D02 5E87 Unofficial pkgs: http://moais.imag.fr/membres/vincent.danjean/deb.html APT repo: deb http://people.debian.org/~vdanjean/debian unstable main
Vincent Danjean links:
Claire Bardel-Danjean links:
- personal web site
- Profile at Laboratoire de biométrie et biologie évolutive (LBBE)
- Publications indexed by HAL
Please see more blogs about the Debian pregnancy cluster.
Please see the chronological history of how the Debian harassment and abuse culture evolved. █