Package: surfraw Version: 2.1.0-1 Severity: important This is embarrassing. In "sr -help" output, please change
-p0rn=yes|no Yes, yes, harder, deeper, faster, oh baybe
to
-amoral=yes|no Deactivate moral content-filtering
Keep the existing option as an undocumented alias for
backward compatibility.
I wish to emphasize that I am not trying to tell the
maintainers or anyone else how to run their lives.
However, this foolish bug is by definition `important'
because it unnecessarily renders the package largely
unusable to a significant minority of users, including
me.
Don't be angry. Consider. In the U.S. (at least), if
your boss were familiar with the output of "sr -help"
and still installed surfraw on your machine, you could
sue him over it. Observant Catholics, Orthodox and
Mormons who do not promptly uninstall the package will
find themselves going to confession over it. To other
traditionally decent people, "sr -help" is at least
insulting. It is hard to imagine many women
liking "sr -help". Teenage hackers' conservative
parents who had thought Debian a positive influence are
likely to change their minds. Et cetera.
We should respect those people.
Does this bug report challenge your right intentionally
to insult people? No. That would be a different
discussion which this report does not mean to open.
However, unless you tell me otherwise, I have no reason
to believe the insult intentional! Presumably whoever
wrote the line in question was only trying to describe
surfraw's functionality in a colorful way. But is there
any reason for a search-engine front end to
be "rated R?" Surfraw is a useful tool.
You could say, "what's the big deal, dude?" or "what
about bible-kjv?" but please don't say that; it wouldn't
be right. Out of respect and tolerance for the minority
of users who love Debian but feel differently about
moral issues than you might, please fix this, along with
any related problems you know of in the man page and
other documentation.
Thanks.
--
Thaddeus H. Black
508 Nellie's Cave Road
Blacksburg, Virginia 24060, USA
+1 540 961 0920, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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