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Removal of Deepin Desktop from OpenSUSE Due to Packaging Policy Violation

by milliams on 5/7/25, 1:28 PM with 10 comments

• by GuinansEyebrows on 5/7/25, 5:56 PM

  I'm a little surprised that they covered a work-around to install Deepin - I wouldn't expect a team with such a strong opinion to make a judgement call on whether or not to distribute the software but then go out of their way to document platform-specific steps to use it, rather than leaving that responsibility to Deepin.

• by remram on 5/7/25, 5:45 PM

  This is really concerning, how many other packages are distributed by OpenSUSE which do not match their policies and are not reviewed?

  A Linux distribution is supposed to be more coherent and vetted than an app store. This... does not inspire confidence.

• by znpy on 5/8/25, 7:29 AM

  > The history of Deepin code reviews clearly shows that upstream is lacking security culture

  As somebody that doesn't write code for a living (i manage infrastructure)... besides common sense, where would one start looking in order to learn "security culture" ?