Hello, I think I need some clarification on the scope of the role of the community team.
I am talking about bugs #1109165 and #1109167 PREMISE ======= Let me start by saying that fortunes-it-off has existed since 2003 and there have been 0 complaints from offended people in these 22 years. It's not pulled as a dependency by anything and even if installed, the fortune package won't display that content unless the "-o" switch is passed. I think it's fair to assume that nobody has ever seen offensive content from that package by mistake. EXTRACT FROM CHANGELOG ====================== 2004: fortunes 1.99 uploaded to debian 2008: typo fixed 2015: move some offensive quotes in the -off package 2019: typo fixed 2023: typo fixed CURRENT SITUATION ================= In 2023 I became maintainer of the package, set up a new upstream project (since the original website was gone) and I have spent a lot of hours making it more current. I did that by removing tens of sexist, homophobic and racist jokes that were not in the offensive section, and had been there at least since 2004. The ones that were just offensive but not funny I removed, those that had some humoristic value I kept in the offensive section. I did remove plenty of stuff from the offensive section. Now, in 2025, after 2 years of me working on this package, and while in freeze, the community team wants to remove the offensive section of the fortunes. When I asked for help to review actually offensive content, both in the regular and in the offensive section, I got no reply other than a vaguely threatening email from the release team. I do not appreciate wasting my time, I do not appreciate having to write this email and I do not appreciate the collective time wasted on this. QUESTIONS ========= 1. Can the community team force me to remove a package, even though I did not violate the COC and they did not receive any complaints? 2. Can they set important priority on bugs while in freeze, about something that has existed for the past 22 years? What's the sudden urgency? 3. Can they say something is offensive even without an actual person being offended? 4. Are they qualified to decide what is offensive and what is not offensive in languages I can only presume they don't speak? 5. How is wasting my time helping (remember that I've been using my time to get rid of offensive content that has been there for 2 decades)? 6. Can people who are offended by the existence of systemd request to drop it from debian? 7. Can someone who is not offended by something ask to drop it because it could offend some other person (even if this other person might not exist)? Best -- Salvo Tomaselli "Io non mi sento obbligato a credere che lo stesso Dio che ci ha dotato di senso, ragione ed intelletto intendesse che noi ne facessimo a meno." -- Galileo Galilei https://ltworf.codeberg.page/