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Debian's Anti-Harassment Team Is Removing A Package Over Its Name (phoronix.com)
quantic_oscillation7 shares a report: The latest notes from the Debian anti-harassment team on Wednesday caught my attention when reading, "We were requested to advice on the appropriateness of a certain package in the Debian archive. Our decision resulted in the package pending removal from the archive." Curiosity got the best of me... What package was deemed too inappropriate for the Debian archive?
When digging further, the package raised to the Debian Anti-Harassment Team was "Weboob." Weboob is short for "Web Outside of Browsers" as it's an open-source collection of software to script and automate the parsing/scraping/gathering-via-API of web data so that it can be consumed by different modules/applications. Weboob.org describes itself as "Weboob is a collection of applications able to interact with websites, without requiring the user to open them in a browser. It also provides well-defined APIs to talk to websites lacking one."
Weboob is Python-based and offers Qt-based user interfaces for accessing these different modules for reading data from different web-sites outside of any conventional web browser. Those interested can learn more about the software at Weboob.org. But, yes, the name is juvenile and likely inappropriate in most professional/corporate environments.
When digging further, the package raised to the Debian Anti-Harassment Team was "Weboob." Weboob is short for "Web Outside of Browsers" as it's an open-source collection of software to script and automate the parsing/scraping/gathering-via-API of web data so that it can be consumed by different modules/applications. Weboob.org describes itself as "Weboob is a collection of applications able to interact with websites, without requiring the user to open them in a browser. It also provides well-defined APIs to talk to websites lacking one."
Weboob is Python-based and offers Qt-based user interfaces for accessing these different modules for reading data from different web-sites outside of any conventional web browser. Those interested can learn more about the software at Weboob.org. But, yes, the name is juvenile and likely inappropriate in most professional/corporate environments.
It hurts.
And I meant that Debian has an "anti-harassment team" that can remove packages. This is the wrong way to solve _what_ problem?
Webob is actually a package that already exists.
The Weboob dev team sets off the asshole detector pretty hard.
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...meant to add, next thing they'll want to get rid of "fsck".
And blocking the installation of Gimp and git
Pain is merely failure leaving the body
Rername it to "Snowflakes".
By the logic used to reach this decision, no, man pages and engrampa are both quite safe.
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
Is there really no middle ground between "don't be a sexist asshat" and "everyone must wear a burka"?
Going by the feminist self defense brigade, defending Islam is great and a burka is 'liberating' and a 'great statement for feminism.' So simply no, there is no middle ground because there seems to be some batshit crazy people who hold substantial positions in various organizations and promote that.
If not I think we have bigger problems, because walking around naked in public is already illegal in most places and we must already be on that slipper slope. My god, they have already banned erect penises on British TV 60 years ago, it's no wonder it's now a Sharia hell-hole!
Considering you've got mass child rape gangs, the police looking the other way, "islamic police" beating the piss out of gays in UK cities, and various things like the Trojan Horse Scandal, seems like you're well on your way to becoming a sharia hell hole. Going by your own posts, you don't seem to have any problem with this either.
Om, nomnomnom...