On Friday, July 18, 2025 5:59:06 AM Mountain Standard Time NoisyCoil wrote: > It's complicated, and nuanced. These complications and nuances do not > apply to your package, which is the subject of this thread.
The complication and nuance of this entire discussion is what fascinates me and why I think that Debian really needs to develop a comprehensive standard regarding acceptable content. As far as I can tell from the discussion and online translations (please correct me if I am wrong), the text that is being referenced here about killing children is Psalms 137:9. The King James Version of this text reads: "Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.” Just focusing on this particular entry, it isn’t just that it speaks about violence towards children and the Bible also speaks about violence towards children. It is that it is *a quote* from the Bible. At a surface level, it is pretty hard to say that it wouldn’t be a double- standard for one package to be allowed to ship the text of the Bible but another package be removed because it ships part of the text of the Bible. The nuance of this is that context matters. But how that plays out is complicated. So far, on this discussion, I have not seen any proposal I would consider a comprehensive standard by which we can judge the inclusion of such packages in Debian. My hope is that we use this discussion to create such a standard. My concern is that, after much discussion, no standard will be developed. -- Soren Stoutner so...@debian.org
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