Reluctantly commenting since this was brought to my attention, I think the following is useful to consider for this discussion:
> Richard Wiedenhöft: A name like "cowsay-off" doesn't imply it contains > obscene content. I don't disagree, but the reason it's called *-off is because there was a long-standing fortunes-off package with "offensive" fortunes. See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=769194 for the discussion on splitting out cowsay-off. I don't care what it's called, but whatever naming convention is used should be consistent across all of Debian. > J. R. Schmid: Why in the world would you want a picture of a sheep (?)[...] _________________________________________ / You do realize you're talking about a \ | program that allows an ASCII elephant | | to talk to you from inside a snake? The | | whole thing is created to be silly. I'm | | a user of one of these cowsay-off | | 'cows'. It's displayed on login along | \ with a quote as a type of potty humor. / ----------------------------------------- \ \ .... . ........ . . . . ....... ......... .............................. Elephant inside ASCII snake > J. R. Schmid: being forced (??) into sex (???) ________________________________________ / And while we're on the subject it's a \ | sodomized sheep, there's no suggestion | | that it's unconsensual. Just as this | | sheep on fire could have lit itself on | | fire. I tried to find out more but the | | sheep being made out of a bunch of | | ASCII characters was unavailable for | \ comment / ---------------------------------------- \ . . . \ . . . ` , \ .; . : .' : : : . \ i..`: i` i.i.,i i . \ `,--.|i |i|ii|ii|i: UooU\.'@@@@@@`.||' \__/(@@@@@@@@@@)' (@@@@@@@@) `YY~~~~YY' || || Signed, A user of cowsay who just wants to get the upstream package *ahem* unmolested by Debian installed on his system (even if that means it's split into two).
