Re: RFS: weboob

[Christophe Benz <christophe.benz@gmail.com>]

Thank you for your feedback.

On 05/04/2011 21:24, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> On 2011-04-05 12:04:00 Christophe Benz wrote:
> > boobank    - Bank accounts console tool
> > boobmsg    - Read and post messages on websites from console
> > havesex    - Sexual life swiss-knife
> > monboob    - Email proxy for websites containing messages
> > qboobmsg   - Read and post messages on websites - Qt GUI
> > qhavesex   - Sexual life swiss-knife - Qt GUI
> > wetboobs   - Weather forecast search tool
>
> I can't help but think that these package names and descriptions might be
> offensive to parts of the Debian community.  Would Debian really be serving
> it's users by including these packages as is?

First of all let me clarify that these packages do not include sexual 
material at all.

The names and descriptions are simply humoristic.

The hot-babe package was rejected because of pictures containing nudity, 
whereas pornview was accepted.
So I am pretty convinced that these packages are in the same case as 
pornview (?)

> havesex and qhavesex could be renamed weboob-dating and weboob-qdating, since
> they are for dating sites in general and don't seem to have use during sexual
> acts, only for scheduling them.

These 2 program names are designed to optimize your results on dating 
websites, and minimize the time the user spend on them. In the project 
team we think that the name "havesex" is more catchy than 
"weboob-dating". Again, that's a joke and we are convinced that users 
can understand that.

> Some of the others can simply have a "boob" ->  "weboob" substitution done to
> them to make them less potentially offensive, IMO.

We appreciate, and the current users, these names. In a word is it a 
felony to write "boob" in a text ? If it is proven that it is, we will 
reconsider our arguments.

BTW, is it about the package names, or the name of the executables ?

> I'm not sure this is the best forum to discuss this, and I could certainly be
> wrong.  In an attempt to avoid a flamewar, I will endeavor to make this my
> last post in this thread.  I believe I've said my piece.

I am open to discussion, and do not like flamewar. If this is not the 
right place to discuss, please tell me.

I would like to know the official Debian point of view in order to avoid 
making a decision only on the top of what some people may think...

Regards,
Christophe Benz