my few cents: the problem with censorship is, once you start, the rabbithole is infinite. Whatever shitty homepage or comment it is, eventually it's just a homepage or comment. I think debian-devs should not be going down the rabbithole of scanning all code for 'bad' words, bad images, suspicious logos etc, as the creativity of humans in infinite too.. The reactive path also plays in the hands of those activists (expect "debian turns out to be ran by X" youtube vids).
kind regards Leon (and hi if we haven't met yet) On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 12:12 PM Petter Reinholdtsen <p...@hungry.com> wrote: > > Personally I find the story of Daryl Davis inspiring, and believe such > approach have higher chances of success than one using contempt and > rejection. > > <URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daryl_Davis > > <URL: > https://www.npr.org/2017/08/20/544861933/how-one-man-convinced-200-ku-klux-klan-members-to-give-up-their-robes > > > > The Homepage URL is a statement of fact about a package, ie its origin > and where users can check out the upstream information. It is also > useful to track down upstream if it move in the future. It is not a > useful marketing channel, but can improve search engine ranking slightly > due to its use within Debian. I believe the advantages of machine > readable links to the package origin outweigh any improved search > ranking, as I believe the latter is very minuscule. > > If I understand the objections about the code, it is about the strings > '#WLM' and 'Nanos gigantum humeris insidentes.'. The former seem to be > a reference to 'white lives matters', a sad reaction to the 'black lives > matter' movement that have gained traction the last few years[1], and > the latter is a reference to a cristian quote initially from Bernard of > Chartres, according to wikipedia[2], and later made more known by Isac > Newton. As I see it these strings have no operational function for the > software and I have no attachment to them whatsoever. I understand that > the objections is regarding believed intent behind the strings. I do > not see any point in spending time discussing them, and thus removed > them from the binary. In my opinion they have no marketing or > promotional value in the source, so I see very little gain from taking > the extra work to repack the tarball with these 9 lines from the source > code > > [1] <URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Lives_Matter > > [2] <URL: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standing_on_the_shoulders_of_giants > > > -- > Happy hacking > Petter Reinholdtsen > > -- L Ξ Ο N V Λ N Κ Λ Μ Μ Ξ N Senior creative technologist & researcher https://2wa.isvery.ninja/hello https://www.linkedin.com/in/leonvankammen
