On Sun, Nov 20, 2022 at 12:28:59PM -0600, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > At 2022-11-20T11:41:56+0100, Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: > > I'm personally fine to defend the "less neutral" position we take by > > dropping fortunes-off which is total garbage. > I'll stop here. That's 5 out of 5, none of which advocates the > oppression of any group based on ethnic or ideologic categories. So are you volunteering to adopt the package and do the work of fixing it up to remove the garbage that our users SHOULDN'T be subjected to through our archive? This isn't Sodom and Gomorrah; the package shouldn't be spared from death because you found 5 good fortunes in it. This package is a fossilized collection of fortunes that some random people on Usenet found funny or otherwise worthy of inclusion over 25 years ago. There are subcollections of fortunes in this package that are explicitly *categorized* as racist, homophobic, and misogynistic. The package IS garbage. I've looked at those files, the categorizations are not incorrect, and there is no redeeming value in shipping such things in Debian. If someone wants to sift through the contents of fortunes-off to separate the wheat from the chaff, fine, let them do it. But the presence of some good fortunes in the package doesn't compel anyone to keep it, nor does rightly pointing out the garbage that's in it incur an obligation to do the work to filter out only the stuff that conflicts with the project's Diversity Statement. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer https://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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