Re: Questionable Package Present in Debian - fortune-mod

2023-08-21 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Aug 21, 2023 at 04:51:39PM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > I keep trying to make the point that if people would just quote the > specific darned fortunes that they have a problem with, we could focus > this discussion immensely. > But no one has, as yet, in either of these threads as

Re: Questionable Package Present in Debian - fortune-mod

2023-08-21 Thread G. Branden Robinson
[self-follow-up] It occurred to me that I need to correct and clarify a couple of points. I'll try to be brief about it, at least relative to my own mean email length, if not the project's. At 2023-08-21T16:51:42-0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: [...] > When we went around the block on this issue

Re: Questionable Package Present in Debian - fortune-mod

2023-08-21 Thread G. Branden Robinson
[It took me so long to write this that responses from Russ and Steve L. have since come through. I find myself in concord with both messages.] At 2023-08-21T19:02:27+, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Mon, Aug 21, 2023 at 05:32:22PM +, Jeremy Stanley wrote: > > On 2023-08-21 20:16:22 +0300 (

Re: [RFC] Extending project standards to services linked through Vcs-*

2023-08-21 Thread Dominik George
Hi, > As an aside, unless something has changed very recently, GH does not > give you a way to disable PRs (issues yes but not PRs). > > If that has suddenly become possible, I have around a thousand > projects I help maintain upstream on a non-GitHub (open source) code > forge and would love to

Re: Questionable Package Present in Debian: fortune-mod

2023-08-21 Thread Russ Allbery
Jeremy Stanley writes: > Removing a package from the archive purely on the grounds that it > contains objectionable text, if such is the reason for not distributing > it, is making a value judgement of that text. The concerns that have > been raised so far for objecting to the content of the pack

Re: Questionable Package Present in Debian - fortune-mod

2023-08-21 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Mon, Aug 21, 2023 at 07:02:27PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > OK. With respect to Branden, Sam, Rodrigo Sanchez and Wouter - this isn't > *just* a free speech matter and Debian isn't particularly censoring content. > I don't view the proposed removal of fortunes-off as censorship. Rather

Re: Questionable Package Present in Debian: fortune-mod

2023-08-21 Thread Jeremy Stanley
On 2023-08-21 11:43:04 -0700 (-0700), Steve Langasek wrote: [...] > Don't you think it's a bit hyperbolic to equate "not distributing > a text in our archive" to "book burning"? Removing a package from the archive purely on the grounds that it contains objectionable text, if such is the reason for

Re: Questionable Package Present in Debian - fortune-mod

2023-08-21 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
Subject: Re: Questionable Package Present in Debian: fortune-mod On Mon, Aug 21, 2023 at 05:32:22PM +, Jeremy Stanley wrote: > On 2023-08-21 20:16:22 +0300 (+0300), Dmitry Baryshkov wrote: > [...] > > According to Debian's CoC we use non-offensive ways to communicate > > within the project, so

Re: Questionable Package Present in Debian: fortune-mod

2023-08-21 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Aug 21, 2023 at 05:32:22PM +, Jeremy Stanley wrote: > On 2023-08-21 20:16:22 +0300 (+0300), Dmitry Baryshkov wrote: > [...] > > According to Debian's CoC we use non-offensive ways to communicate > > within the project, so that everybody is welcome to speak and > > contribute. But we sho

Re: Questionable Package Present in Debian: fortune-mod

2023-08-21 Thread Jeremy Stanley
On 2023-08-21 20:16:22 +0300 (+0300), Dmitry Baryshkov wrote: [...] > According to Debian's CoC we use non-offensive ways to communicate > within the project, so that everybody is welcome to speak and > contribute. But we should not censor software. If there is a > misogynistic comment in GNU HURD

Re: [RFC] Extending project standards to services linked through Vcs-*

2023-08-21 Thread Dominik George
Hi, On Mon, Aug 21, 2023 at 09:48:26AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Dominik George writes: > > > For the GitHub case, the problematic terms would be that in order to > > register for a GitHub account, users must be at least 13 or 16 years old > > (depending on the jurisdiction) ant must not live

Re: [RFC] Extending project standards to services linked through Vcs-*

2023-08-21 Thread Jeremy Stanley
On 2023-08-21 17:00:04 +0200 (+0200), Dominik George wrote: [...] > A concrete implementation for GitHub repositories would be to > disable issues and PRs [...] As an aside, unless something has changed very recently, GH does not give you a way to disable PRs (issues yes but not PRs). If that has

Re: Questionable Package Present in Debian: fortune-mod

2023-08-21 Thread Dmitry Baryshkov
On Sat, 19 Aug 2023 at 00:52, Dominik George wrote: > > > So, let's at least be consistent. > > Totally agree with that. > > Debian is not a collection of harmful content, it is an operating system. > > But, unfortunately, there are too many people in the project who think, in > the name of "free

Re: Questionable Package Present in Debian: fortune-mod

2023-08-21 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
Hi Wouter, I think that you and I are actually in agreement. On Mon, Aug 21, 2023 at 06:06:34PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Sat, Aug 19, 2023 at 02:28:22PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 19, 2023 at 07:11:11PM +0200, Dominik George wrote: > > > >The mission you have chose

Re: [RFC] Extending project standards to services linked through Vcs-*

2023-08-21 Thread Russ Allbery
Dominik George writes: > For the GitHub case, the problematic terms would be that in order to > register for a GitHub account, users must be at least 13 or 16 years old > (depending on the jurisdiction) ant must not live in a country under US > embargoes. This implies that Salsa is happy to crea

Re: Questionable Package Present in Debian: fortune-mod

2023-08-21 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sat, Aug 19, 2023 at 02:28:22PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Sat, Aug 19, 2023 at 07:11:11PM +0200, Dominik George wrote: > > >The mission you have chosen for yourself, then, is to identify all those > > >things in the Debian distribution that are not constitutive of an > > >operating s

[RFC] Extending project standards to services linked through Vcs-*

2023-08-21 Thread Dominik George
Heisann, [ for reference, the general discussion was held in 2019 already, in a slightly ] [ too big context [3]. ] as many of you will know, I am heavily involved in tearing down obstacles in the way of contributing to free and open sour