On Saturday, November 19, 2022 9:52:08 AM EST Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > All, > > This is in the context of a mail to the Community Team raising a query about > fortunes-off - the fortune cookie database that contains offensive > fortunes. > > The specific query was about Nazi quotes from someone in Europe - I don't > believe our database currently contains these, as they were purged from the > BSD package from which ours is derived but I would be prepared to be very > wrong here. > > The point was made that if the database did contain Nazi quotes / a swastika > it might make it illegal to host the content on mirrors in at least Germany > or Austria. > > The database dates back to 1997 or so - I note one of the upstream > maintainers from around that time (Amy Lewis) having concerns about > fortunes-offensive categories. > > This database contains some quotes categories that probably don't fit in > with our Debian values or general societal values 25 years on - ethnic, > homophobia and a few others. > > This does raise the wider question: we're about to freeze for Bookworm. > Removing leaf packages and packages with a small user count might be > profitable at this point. Fortune-mod has some bugs at the moment > preventing testing transition and has had several NMUs prior to the latest > upload. > > Would it be a good idea to at least remove fortunes-off and the > corresponding data file for Bookworm at this point and going forwards? > It saves a tiny amount of space and a few translations and represents a > small simplification of Debian at minimal cost. > > We don't have to ship the whole world of data just because it's available: > if anyone wants to package their own collections of fortune quotes for > themselves, the instructions are readily available to do so on the 'Net. > > Your thoughts, please.
Binary was dropped three days ago: https://tracker.debian.org/news/1385116/accepted-fortune-mod-11991-72-source-amd64-all-into-unstable/ Scott K