Re:Debian's Anti-Harassment Team Is Removing a Package Over ...
by sudhirj on Thursday December 20, 2018 @11:07PM
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Yeah, my bar is already pretty low. Random insults directed at me are fine, but I’m not going to ask my team to even evaluate this as viable software, because both the women and men will probably be uncomfortable with this. That’s a sad state for a technical project to be in.
https://git.weboob.org/weboob/devel/merge_requests/228
They then added it back with a different insult:
https://git.weboob.org/weboob/devel/merge_requests/232/diffs...
I mean I can understand the sentiment some might have that overzealous political correctness is taking over. I might be on that side of the fence if this was just purely about the name. But this is on a whole different level. Debian doesn't need to ship this if they don't want to. I personally wouldn't want to make a distro that provides my users software to install that insults them (and not a joking insult, this is just straight up poor taste). It just looks tacky, isn't necessary, and (this is biggest issue) is very insulting to certain groups of people.