On Sat, Jun 04, 2005 at 07:40:46PM +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote: > * R. Armiento [Fri, 03 Jun 2005 18:02:54 +0200]: > > > I just want to bring bug #311683 to "public awareness" and > > discussion. Since it is a bit of a "sociopolitcal" and policy > > issue, I suspect there may be people out there who feel > > strongly about this one way or the other, and with > > the upcoming release of debian sarge, it might not be optimal > > if this feature makes it out to the official release "under > > the radar" without being publically discussed. > > 1. This is not getting fixed for Sarge, it has been reported too late. > You may want to (try to) convince the Stable Release Manager that > this is really suitable or even necessary for a point release.
This needs to be fixed for sarge, as it will subject random underage people sitting in the same room your computer is in to random porn. I believe this is illegal in most countries, and we can't be allowed to let this happen. I also believe that this may subject distributors of debian/sarge cd to legal troubles. > 2. The KDE team has already said (read the bug log) that we will > provide a solution for this issue in our next upload. Either by not > providing the Web Collage screensaver at all in the Control Center, > or (preferably) by not letting Random mode pick it. > > Other solutions, like having Random mode let you pick what > screensavers to use, are in upstream's realm. > > 3. If you're a system administrator and are concerned about this > biting you and your users, do one of these: > > - don't install the kscreensaver-xsavers package > - dpkg-divert --add --rename > /usr/share/applnk/System/ScreenSavers/webcollage.desktop So, what is wrong with making an upload that fixes this instead ? > 4. If you're a KDE user and don't want Random mode to pick Web > Collage, do one of these: > > - don't use Random mode > - ask your sysadmin to perform one of the actions in (3) > - drop the attached file in ~/.kde/share/applnk/System/ScreenSavers; > do gunzip it first, but DO NOT rename it. (With it, whenever Web > Collage would have been used, "Blank Screen" will be called instead. > I attach the diff to the original file too.) > > 5. If you are reading the above and think "Debian should deliver a > good product by default, and neither (3) nor (4) are reasonable > things to ask to our users", I agree, but the timing of this report > has been very unfortunate. So what ? What happened to we will release when we are ready ? And is really one day more or less or even a week going to be a problem ? Especially given the legal consequences it can bring to our users and distributors ? Friendly, Sven Luther
