On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 01:09:35PM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote:
The basic reason is this: it makes sense.
Yours (and Roberto's) reasons are, I think, post-hoc rationalisations. IMHO the real reason is nobody has successfully made the case and/or implementation of a decent default firewall for Debian, not that there's no case to be made. It's probably a contentious enough decision that it would require some bureaucratic machinery to determine whether the project, as a whole, agreed that there should be one or not. But that hasn't happened yet (in either direction) -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.
