Hi all,
I am writing on behalf of the Anti-Harassment team, as our input has
been requested on this issue.
Our understanding, after reading the mail threads and bug reports, is
that the package in its current shape is against the Debian CoC ("be
respectful") -- while it's not a "flagrant" violation,
As Gregor Herrmann eloquently[1] put it, it's "not ok to use the boobs
theme for a web scraper or other software unrelated to boobs [sic]
themselves, where its only function is to make a small group of users
giggle while objectifying, offending or boring the rest of the world."
We appreciate uploading a new version without the insults (and thank
Jonathan Dowland for his efforts[2][3] on this front). Please note that
the insults and homophobic language *is* a flagrant violation of
Debian's CoC and in our opinion, Debian should not ship new software
including them.
We believe the next release should not contain the package in question
in its current state; our recommendation would be to either work with
upstream on correcting these issues, forking and/or patching it, or just
removing the package. There is still enough time to find a solution that
respects our users and our community while keeping a useful piece of
software in the archive. We would also encourage all parties to be
respectful, and to observe the community needs for a healthy environment
where such puerile humour taken at the expense of other people is not
acceptable any more.
If this dispute cannot be resolved amicably and timely, we believe the
FTP-master team can -and should- unilaterally remove the package from
the archive. We think that invoking the CTTE or calling a GR would
unnecessarily cause more disruption and draw energy from the community.
Martín Ferrari, on behalf of the Anti-Harassment team.
[1]: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2018/07/msg00428.html
[2]: https://git.weboob.org/weboob/devel/merge_requests/228
[3]: https://git.weboob.org/weboob/devel/issues/154
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Martín Ferrari (Tincho)
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