Bug#1024493: Proposed-RM: bs1770gain -- RoQA; inappropriate content
On Sun, Nov 20, 2022 at 10:12:32PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
>[Christoph Berg]
>
>> It's not just "views" of the author. The crap is deeply embedded into
>> the source code. This thing needs to go.
>
>Where and what is this 'crap' that is 'deeply embedded into the source
>code'? Are we talking about the stuff disabled by
>debian/patches/2000-non-controversial-usage.patch or something else?
There's still a link to his moronic racist views in the Debian
packaging itself (the Homepage field), and the stuff you've patched
out is still in the source we distribute. At the very least they
should be removed IMHO.
>A friend of mine from USA visites this summer, and said he was impressed
>that in my country people with opposing views were able to talk together
>and treat each other with respect. I believe it is a property that is
>worth protecting, as the way to change peoples mind is by treating them
>with respend and communicating with them as fellow humans.
There's a difference in degree here that I hope you might recognise?
We like to discuss different opinions, sure. But hatred of others is
not a worthy *opinion*.
Distributing and linking to racist propaganda is really *not*
something Debian should be doing.
--
Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@einval.com
"Every time you use Tcl, God kills a kitten." -- Malcolm Ray
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