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Removal of Deepin Desktop from openSUSE due to Packaging Policy Violation (security.opensuse.org)

submitted 16 hours ago by exu@feditown.com to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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[–] that_leaflet@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Wasn’t vertical integration, was done by packager.

We don’t believe that the openSUSE Deepin packager acted with bad intent when he implemented the “license agreement” dialog to bypass our whitelisting restrictions. The dialog itself makes the security concerns we have transparent, so this does not happen in a sneaky way, at least not towards users. It was not discussed with us, however, and it violates openSUSE packaging policies.

[–] simontherockjohnson@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 hours ago

Right, but what I'm saying the design to need these things was likely based on Deepin running their own distro. They don't have to consider the security guidelines of other distros like KDE or Gnome, XFCE or Enlightenment would.