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On 17/07/25 14:30, Salvo Tomaselli wrote:

Sure, make a pull request to remove them.

I had started preparing a PR for removing stuff like that from sicilian offensive, because that only has a handful of fortunes and I could
review them one by one and research them on the internet if I wasn't
sure if they should be interpreted like I thought (I haven't finished
this job yet). Italian offensive contains what, around 700 fortunes? I
don't have enough time to review those and given what I've already found
I'm not expecting it to be an easy job.

But should stuff like this be blanket removed?

- Come fa sesso un esperto di UNIX?
- Unzip ; strip ; touch ; finger ; mount ; fsck ;
more ; yes ; umount ; sleep .
-- Dr. Zap

This is fucking hilarious. Like, seriously, I laughed *hard*. Choice of
words: +100.

The real work is stuff like this:

https://codeberg.org/fortunes-it/fortunes-it/ commit/397b02fce49c18b6811a2e7bc7fe962d034726e5

getting rid of stuff from actual fascists that have inspired modern
day fascists to beat up journalists and gay people, that is not even
in the offensive section. That's in my opinion much more relevant than
what's in the offensive section.

No, it is not *much more* relevant. Again, the offensive section
contains calls to beat women.

But all I see is people mobbing me and 0 people helping.

Best.

I disagree with the Community Team and the Release Managers (although I recognize the latter ultimate authority on this matter, of course) if
they think a package should be removed just because it *may* in theory
contain offensive stuff. However, after looking into the package I think
they made the right call: this package is very much not suitable for
release. Like, a hard no. I apologize I can't be more helpful, but with
the trixie release being quite close, the work I already do in Debian
and $DAYJOB I have little time left. If you appreciate it, I'd still
send upstream that MR for sicilian, in the hope that the package may be
cleaned up and reintroduced for forky.

Cheers!

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