Hi Ævar (cool name btw!) and thanks for pointing out the two inaccuracies in my first comment. I still would like to know why a project like Debian (used ostensibly by every kind of human on the planet, across ages, sexes, political and religious divides and whatnot) feels like it needs to include anything that's as you state yourself (a) silly and (b) as such not really useful or necessary for anything in any way while it /will/ (c) be clear to /any/one within the "large and diverse community of users and developers" (https://wiki.debian.org/Community) that pictures of sheep being sodomized, voluntarily so or not, may cause very real troubles of various sorts for an unknowable number of members of the that diverse community.
Unfortunately Felicia took a step back saying this is not about tastelessness or offensiveness, but only about possible legal issues. I'll kindly ask you to yourself come up with examples of where all three of these occur at once, it isn't going to take you very long to do so. Since I was asked, outside this forum, what, in my opinion should happen: Felicia, I agree it's a reasonable course of action to ask for user confirmation on install of cowsay-off and possible other packages like it. I also agree with you, Ævar, "whatever naming convention is used should be consistent across all of Debian". I'll go one step further though and say that the naming convention should be "-offensive". In addition to that, I /really, /please, want to hear from a member of Debian as to what the reasoning is for including such imagery in the biggest and oldest distribution of the largest non-commercial operating system in the world. I'd further like to ask for that statement to be well thought-through and non-humorous in nature. That's all the things that, in my opinion, should happen. Cheers, Jonathan
