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.
