Package: xscreensaver Version: 5.34-1 Severity: grave Tags: upstream Hi,
The upstream maintainer of xscreensaver has explicitly asked Debian to stop shipping it, which is a shame of course: https://www.jwz.org/blog/2016/04/i-would-like-debian-to-stop-shipping-xscreensaver/ It *is* still a free software project, based on freely-licensed works of many authors. Debian obviously may choose to ship it in any case, and I'm sure it will continue to do so in wheezy-lts and jessie. Removal from sid did sound extreme to me at first, but going forward, software projects do need an upstream maintainer, and currently he chooses to be hostile: Bug #819703 was a deliberate annoyance / anti-feature that impacted many of our users, and will create work for the package maintainer and stable release managers to resolve. Even if it is only minor, it would not stand if Debian allowed that sort of thing to proliferate in all software in its stable releases. CVEs are not filed for security bugs and code commits don't seem to be split out individually in any public repository, making security support in stable releases problematic. (similar to the Oracle-MySQL situation) Newer upstream versions add advertising for the upstream maintainer's commercial ventures. The logos of DNA Lounge, DNA Pizza and Codeword seem likely to be non-free by the DFSG. Their removal could further incense the upstream maintainer, more-so than removing the package. Thanks for your consideration. -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: kfreebsd-amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: kFreeBSD 10.1-0-amd64 Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
