Police investigations, lawsuits & Debian leader election candidate shortage
Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock.
13:30 Mon, 09 Mar 2026
Kurt Roeckx has sent an email asking for candidates in the Debian Project Leader (DPL) election. So far, nobody has replied publicly.
Will Debianism elections be conducted in secret from now on, like the recent election of Iran's new leader?
If the Debianism election debate is conducted publicly, will we discuss the elephant in the room, the police investigations?
Will we have a public discussion about the $15 billion lawsuit?
The role of Debian Project Leader is not paid. One of the cyberbullies who held this role previously, Chris Lamb, decided to impose upon the privacy of my family at a time of grief. Other cyberbullies in the group have now sustained the invasion of privacy over eight years. Will the next person to hold this position be willing to apologise to the volunteers and our families and delete all the privacy violations from web sites, mailing lists and Git repositories?
As long as these people violate the privacy of my family, I will continue publishing the history of other victims, including the Debian suicide cluster. Every member of this gang who ever did or said anything against the privacy of my family is equally to blame for the widespread disclosure of the Debian suicide cluster.
We saw exactly the same thing happen in the UK. When former Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his advisor Dominic Cummings parted ways, nothing was said. Yet one day, months after Cummings had gone, Johnson started a rumour about Cummings. To defend his honour, Cummings had no choice other than showing everybody the truth about the lock-down parties.
Boris Johnson became the first ever British Prime Minister to be convicted of misleading parliament. The violations of my family's privacy and the subsequent deaths, including Abraham Raji, which I had anticipated in a warning to the coroner, appear even more scandalous than the lock-down parties.
If the legal case proceeds in New York without an early settlement, various people from Debianism will be compelled to attend depositions where they will have to sit in front of a video camera and answer questions under oath about the sources of Debian money and the reason that money isn't shared equally between all the Debian joint authors.
The Debian Project Leader role is unpaid and involves having people contact you for all sorts or problems, big and small, 24 hours per day, 365 days per year. If people insist on continuing to violate the privacy of my family then they only make it more difficult to find quality candidates for that role.
The best way to encourage people to nominate for the election will be for the existing leader, Andreas Tille, to withdraw all the privacy attacks, settle the lawsuits proactively and ensure the next leader can walk in and find the desk is clean ready to work on productive things.
Don't hold your breath waiting for transparency about these attacks on my family. There is still time to watch my video and contribute to the crowdfunding campaign. █