Hello,
> You can't blame the community team for not doing something 20 years ago
> because there wasn't a community team 20 years ago.
The community team wasn't created last week either…
> It's also unreasonable to say the only time a bug can be reported in a
> program is when a new maintainer takes it over.
It's unreasonable for a 22 years old issue to be an RC bug in freeze.
Had they reported it 6 months ago I could have invested some time into
reviewing and removing the things that cross the line.
But they chose to do it now instead… But we must always assume good
faith, right?
> I'm also fairly sure you were aware of the last discussion that we had
> on this very topic when you decided to adopt fortunes-it.
No, I was not aware of the discussion. I admit I don't read all the
emails from the mailing lists.
Why has the community team waited 2 years?
> last discussion, and last actions, weren't on the fortunes-it package
> specifically is a technicality: surely you anticipated someone at some
> point complaining.
But, nobody has complained.
Nobody installed the package by mistake, invoked fortune to obtain an
offensive fortune by mistake and by mistake was offended by a quote
contained in the package. This has never happened.
What is happening is very different: posturing.
> Take a break. Is this the line in the sand you want to draw?
Maybe it is.
As I said in another email, I've recently given a lecture about
Debian. If Debian is not the kind of nice community I thought it was I
better find out sooner rather than later so I avoid giving out false
information in the future.
Let's remember that the community team did not receive any complaint
about me. They just woke up and decided to go after me.
Best
--
Salvo Tomaselli
I difensori della morale tradizionale sono raramente persone di cuore. Si è
tentati di pensare che essi si servano della morale come di legittimo sfogo
al loro desiderio di fare del male agli altri.
-- Bertrand Russell, Perché non sono cristiano. 1957
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