Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdo...@gmail.com> writes: > Based on above, what are your opinions/thoughts/positions about Content > Rating System in Debian?
It sounds like a whole ton of work to get a useful amount of coverage (not to mention bothering upstreams with questionnaires that I suspect many of them would find irritating -- I certainly would with my upstream hat on), and I'm not clear on the benefit. Do you have some reason to believe that this is a common request by users of Debian? If so, could you share with us why you believe that? Debian already has a couple of voluntary labeling mechanisms that, while not precisely relevant to this, are at least adjacent: debtags for general package tagging (see the junior tag root, for instance, and name-based labeling of packages with potentially offensive content per https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-binary.html#packages-with-potentially-offensive-content Both of those are nowhere near as comprehensive as CRS, of course, but it's not clear to me that something as comprehensive as CRS has enough demand to be worth the effort, and there's obviously a maintenance burden incurred by using it. It's probably worth noting, though, that if any group felt strongly enough about CRS to do the work, I don't see any obvious reason why debtags couldn't handle a set of CRS tags, which has the huge advantage of not requiring any work by the package maintainer and instead shifting the burden to the people who care about CRS. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
