Re: Fortunes-off - do we need this as a package for Bookworm?
On Wed, 14 Dec 2022 at 18:40, Gunnar Wolf <gwolf@debian.org> wrote:
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> Andrew M.A. Cater dijo [Wed, Dec 14, 2022 at 07:33:53AM +0000]:
> > (...)
> > The utility of a separate package depends on how much work it is to
> > produce it. That was the renaming bug that jmtd fixed, I think.
> > I think removing Hitler/Goebbels quotes from an obscure game is worthwhile:
> > it stops any association / any *Debian encourages Nazism* and means that we
> > don't have to worry about hosting it anywhere at all.
>
> Although during this discussion it was shown via several examples (and
> not one counterexample TTBOMK) that, while fortunes-off does have
> nazi-leaders snippets, it's not something that can be read as
> endorsing those views, but just the opposite -- either ridiculing
> them, pointing out how flawed the ideas were, or somesuch.
>
Correct, it is not the data to be evil but how we perceive it.
Forgetting the past is not the right way to deal with it but the
easiest to repeat the errors.
Best, R-
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