why are we policing profanity? can we all just take a deep breath and
lighten the hell up?

On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 6:22 PM, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Now that this bug has been brought to my attention, I cannot help
> myself. I have to grep Debian changelogs for profanity, filter for
> profanity that includes personal insults, and wonder why these packages
> reached the archive w/o RC bug reports being filed:
>
>  * The fucked up system release. (Fuck off Long, it is justified.)
>
>  -- Zephaniah E. Hull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  Mon, 18 Mar 2002 19:10:17 -0500
>
> (IIRC the Long mentioned is a user who adopted the name of the Heinlein
> character.)
>
>  * Changed debian/watch to match with the new fucking Sourceforge
>    Interface. Sourceforge sucks!
>
>  -- Joerg Jaspert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  Sun,  5 May 2002 15:24:17 +0200
>
> (I guess this was before he bacame a ftp-master and started drinking milk.)
>
>  * The "Fuck Me Harder" release.
>
>  -- Joel Klecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  Fri, 29 Oct 1999 09:06:27 -0700
>
> (Not a personal insult, but my all time favorite occurance of "fuck"
> in a changelog, evar. Honorable mention to gpm 1.19.6-10.)
>
>  * allow hunspell-dictionary-de in hunspells Depends:, thanks
>    Gerfried Fucks (closes: #359628)
>
>  -- Rene Engelhard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  Tue, 28 Mar 2006 20:08:34 +0200
>
> (Er, ITYM "Fuchs". HTH.)
>
>  * Use [:lower:] in rules fule because fucking LC_COLLATE blows me.
>
>  -- Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  Thu, 26 Apr 2001 22:59:58 -0400
>
> (Just to be clear, I *do* intend that as a personal insult to the inventors
> of that monstrosity.)
>
>    * The "I fucking hate libtool" release. Prevent libtool from checking 
> things
>      we do not need at all, such as a C++ or an F77 compiler. Sigh.
>
>  -- Julien BLACHE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  Tue,  3 Jun 2003 22:34:48 +0200
>
> (Surely not this can't be the ONLY "I fucking hate libtool" release?)
>
>    - Avoid recursive brainfuck with type-handling.  This actualy fixes
>      #297269, but we leave it for t-h to close.
>
>  -- Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  Thu, 14 Apr 2005 18:36:04 +0200
>
> (Honourable mention for the mental imagery.)
>
>  * 'wearing my "fuck redhat" shirt and loving it' release
>
>  -- Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  Wed,  7 Mar 2001 10:42:03 -0800
>
> (A shirt I remember well, though actually not fondly.)
>
>    The upstream author is kind of a lazy bastard
>
>  -- Colin Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  Fri, 15 Aug 2003 21:31:23 -0400
>
> (Does profanely insulting oneself count though?)
>
>
> PS, don't even get me started on the (literally) 490 occurances of the term
> "shit" in dpkg's source. Which are split (localized?) between a ohshite()
> and a ohshit() function.
>
> --
> see shy jo
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