This one time, at band camp, R. Armiento said: > The issue is: > 1. The WebCollage screensaver "...makes collages out of > random images pulled off of the World Wide Web. It finds > these images by doing random web searches...". The result is > a screensaver that often shows sexually explicit images. So you are suggesting that a network that doesn't care enough one way or another about pornography to filter their web traffic will suddenly be exposed to naked people via a screensaver? What network do you work on that a screensaver is your first exposure to naughty bits? > 2. The xscreensaver package contains the WebCollage > screensaver, but places it among the screensavers that per > default are not included in "random screensaver". > > 3. KDE's random screensaver ignores xscreensavers settings > about what screensavers should be included in "random > screensaver" and randomize over all screensavers. > > Result: users of KDE with the 'random screensaver' setting > eventually find their screens filled with sexually explicit > content. And even if that should be fixed, users "flipping > through the screensavers" risk being presented with sexual > content in the screensaver preview window. This sounds like something for site policy, not Debian policy. It is most certainly not a bug. Were I the maintainer of the package, I would just close the report. You asked to get a collage of web images. Most of the web is porn sites. Therefor, you asked for porn. Feature, not bug, if you ask me. If you don't want porn, filter the traffic. > Here is the bug link: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=%23311683 > > It may also be relevant that a similar discussion is taking > place on the Fedora bug lists: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=139513 > (with duplicate bugs: 139777, 149803, 140684) RedHat may care to cater to people too stupid to filter their web traffic. I certainly don't, and I hope that the maintainer of xscreensaver and kdelibs-bin don't either. If it offends you, don't use it. If it offends your site, have site policy filter it. Please, please, please, people, can we stop with the bugs about accidental exposure to something you don't want to see? Take a little responsibility for what you install on your computer already. Debian won't stop people from staring at the Sun until their eyes burn out either. Is that a grave, normal, or wishlist bug? -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : sgran@debian.org | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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