At the beginning of this year we noticed that the Deepin Desktop as it is currently packaged in openSUSE relies on a packaging policy violation to bypass SUSE security team review restrictions. With a long history of code reviews for Deepin components dating back to 2017, this marks a turning point for us that leads to the removal of the Deepin Desktop from openSUSE for the time being.
  • Eskuero@lemmy.fromshado.ws
    371·
    6 days ago

    In January 2025, during routine reviews, we stumbled upon the deepin-feature-enable package, which was introduced on 2021-04-27 without consulting us or even informing us.

    Damm

      • IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org
        7·
        5 days ago

        It seems to me that the offending dialog would only be triggered if you did a full fresh install. During the previous iteration of the testing, they probably had a VM somewhere with it installed; since the underlying packages were already present, the dialog would never have popped up.