{"id":167557,"date":"2026-04-05T11:12:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T09:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prohoster.info\/blog\/novosti-interneta\/liderom-debian-vpervye-stanet-zhenshhina-pozicziya-po-verifikaczii-vozrasta-v-debian"},"modified":"2026-04-05T11:12:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T09:12:40","slug":"liderom-debian-vpervye-stanet-zhenshhina-pozicziya-po-verifikaczii-vozrasta-v-debian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prohoster.info\/en\/blog\/news\/liderom-debian-vpervye-stanet-zhenshhina-pozicziya-po-verifikaczii-vozrasta-v-debian","title":{"rendered":"For the first time, a woman will lead Debian. The position on age verification in Debian","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"

Andreas Tille, the leader of the Debian project, published a monthly report in which he explained that he chose not to run for project leader a third time to encourage other participants to put forward their candidacies. As a result, there is only one candidate for the leadership position this year \u2014 Sruthi Chandran, a participant from India. Voting started yesterday and will continue until April 17, but the outcome is already determined; it is unlikely that a majority of participants will vote 'against all'. <\/p>\n

Sruthi joined the project in 2016 and has been involved in maintaining 194 packages, including libraries for Ruby, Node.js, and Go, as well as packages containing fonts. She was also among the organizers of DebConf India and DebConf, and is a member of the Outreach team, which develops initiatives for training newcomers and encouraging women and minority participation in the project. <\/p>\n

Sruthi's plans as leader focus on supporting diversity in the community, delegating some of the leader's tasks to 1-2 assistants to improve efficiency, creating a structured course on Debian for students, organizing the pre-installation of Debian on laptops, working towards a more welcoming communication style within the community, and supporting participants who propose new ideas and processes for improving Debian. The plans also mention creating a simpler decision-making process for approving minor everyday matters than the General Resolution (GR) that is currently used, which is considered excessive for such issues.

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In the second part of the report, Andreas Tille shared his views on the implementation of laws requiring age verification APIs in operating systems, adopted in some states in the USA and in Brazil. It is noted that the applicability of these laws to a non-commercial project developed by volunteers and distributed for free remains unclear \u2014 the measures to comply with these laws are currently under discussion among developers and legal assessment by SPI (Software in the Public Interest). <\/p>\n

It is assumed that the obligations to comply with laws primarily affect distributors and commercial companies that create products based on Debian. The Debian project is ready to integrate the necessary features to meet legal requirements in derivative distributions, but this functionality will be optional and will not be imposed on users from countries without such laws. <\/p>\n

The addition of an API for applications to request user age information is also being discussed by developers of the Ubuntu, Fedora, Linux Mint, and NixOS distributions. Specific decisions have not yet been made, but the possibility of implementing the required API is being considered. A change has already been made in systemd, adding a birthDate field in userdb with the user's date of birth, and the homectl utility now includes the '--birth-date' option for setting age. The added field can be utilized in the xdg-desktop-portal and AccountsService being developed for the distributions to provide applications with information about the user's age category via the D-Bus interface 'org.freedesktop.AgeVerification1' or 'org.freedesktop.ParentalControls'.
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