Re: Fortunes-off - do we need this as a package for Bookworm?

2022-11-21 Thread tomas
On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 04:59:49PM -0500, The Wanderer wrote: [...] > I have never once interpreted them as promoting Nazi ideology. Rather, I > have always interpreted them as being a useful reminder of the sorts of > things that Nazis said and stood for [...] Context. I wouldn't ever have,

Re: Fortunes-off - do we need this as a package for Bookworm?

2022-11-21 Thread tomas
On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 02:25:10PM -0600, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > At 2022-11-21T07:58:29-0700, Sam Hartman wrote: [] > Thanks, Sam. (And Tomas, to whom I have an unfinished reply lingering > in my postponed folder.) Don't bother much. Other than Sam's, my message is not that deep that

Re: Fortunes-off - do we need this as a package for Bookworm?

2022-11-21 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sun, Nov 20, 2022 at 07:58:38PM -0600, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > [3] Still called "FTP masters"[4]. Even long after FTP is deprecated > and Git repositories the world over have gotten their main branches > renamed to avoid terminology redolent of unjust power inequities, >

Re: Fortunes-off - do we need this as a package for Bookworm?

2022-11-21 Thread The Wanderer
On 2022-11-19 at 11:31, Dominik George wrote: >> 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. >>

Re: Fortunes-off - do we need this as a package for Bookworm?

2022-11-21 Thread nick black
G. Branden Robinson left as an exercise for the reader: > I only have so many fights in me. Cajoling man page authors to use a > new "MR" macro to put hyperlinked cross-references in their documents, I > expect to take the preponderance of my feeble persuasive energies for > some time.[3] hot

Re: Fortunes-off - do we need this as a package for Bookworm?

2022-11-21 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2022-11-21T07:58:29-0700, Sam Hartman wrote: > > "G" == G Branden Robinson writes: > > G> By your metric, so is the Hebrew Bible. For all the slaughter, > G> xenophobia, and ethno-religious supremacism in it, there's some > G> good stuff as well. I find the exasperated jeremiads

Re: Fortunes-off - do we need this as a package for Bookworm?

2022-11-21 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Jonathan, Thank you for stepping forward to present yourself for potential criticism in a discussion forum. Unfortunately that is the only laudable aspect I can locate in your message. At 2022-11-21T15:39:24+, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 12:07:53AM +0100, Michael

Re: Fortunes-off - do we need this as a package for Bookworm?

2022-11-21 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Jonathan" == Jonathan Dowland writes: Jonathan> Anyone who has a problem with what I did and believes I Jonathan> should be censured or subject to some other form of Jonathan> disciplinary process, please just go ahead and do it, Jonathan> don't beat about the bush. Hi. I

Re: Fortunes-off - do we need this as a package for Bookworm?

2022-11-21 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 12:07:53AM +0100, Michael Neuffer wrote: As it was an NMU, this should be easily rectified. Don't let cancel culture win. Indeed; my action is not irreversible. Anyone who has a problem with what I did and believes I should be censured or subject to some other form of

Re: Fortunes-off - do we need this as a package for Bookworm?

2022-11-21 Thread Sam Hartman
> "G" == G Branden Robinson writes: G> By your metric, so is the Hebrew Bible. For all the slaughter, G> xenophobia, and ethno-religious supremacism in it, there's some G> good stuff as well. I find the exasperated jeremiads of some of G> the later prophets relatable and

Aw: Re: Fortunes-off - do we need this as a package for Bookworm?

2022-11-21 Thread Steffen Möller
> Gesendet: Montag, 21. November 2022 um 03:10 Uhr > Von: "Roberto A. Foglietta" > An: "Steve McIntyre" > Cc: "Michael Neuffer" , debian-project@lists.debian.org > Betreff: Re: Fortunes-off - do we need this as a package for Bookworm? > > On Mon, 21 Nov 2022 at 00:59, Steve McIntyre wrote: >

Re: Fortunes-off - do we need this as a package for Bookworm?

2022-11-21 Thread Pierre-Elliott Bécue
"Roberto A. Foglietta" wrote on 20/11/2022 at 22:14:35+0100: > On Sun, 20 Nov 2022 at 21:42, G. Branden Robinson > wrote: > >> Thank you for, perhaps inadvertently, compelling me to review some of >> the content of the package. I can now say that I am certain there is >> material of worth in

Re: Fortunes-off - do we need this as a package for Bookworm?

2022-11-21 Thread Pierre-Elliott Bécue
"G. Branden Robinson" wrote on 20/11/2022 at 19:28:59+0100: > [[PGP Signed Part:No public key for D19E9C7D71266DCE created at > 2022-11-20T19:28:52+0100 using RSA]] > At 2022-11-20T11:41:56+0100, Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: >> I'm personally fine to defend the "less neutral" position we take