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Re: "purity" package

At 09:05 AM 12/1/97 +1059, Craig Sanders wrote:
>
>On 28 Nov 1997 bruce@va.debian.org wrote:
>
>> This program might be of fleeting interest to 14-year-olds.
>
>similar could be said of the bible package....that is is of interest only
>to moral children who haven't figured out that there is no paternalistic
>figure in the sky snooping on their every thought and action.  

I don't believe that that comment was neccesary, I believe this argument is
becoming more childish that the package is about.

>
>also it can be deeply offensive to non-christians (particular those who
>have been persecuted by christians acting in the name of their god) and
>may even be illegal in some non-christian countries.

as a cnon-christian, who'se ancestors probably faced a lot of that
persecution, I don't find it offensive.

>
>> I think "purity" and the offensive fortunes should be in a separate
>> distribution. Call it "offensive" or something. Let people who want to
>> carry it do so.
>
>please, lets not reduce ourselves to a lowest-common-denominator kind of
>bland inoffensiveness.  Why should we suddenly start making 'moral'
>judgements about packages as well as judging whether they are DFSG free or
>not? 

I agree going by the lowest common denominator is bad.  We should vote, and
let our collective concience decide what we are doing.

>
>it isn't debian's place to be making such 'moral' judgements.  'morality'
>is far from universal - it's different for every country, culture, and
>individual.
>

I agree, but it is for the majority of developers to agree to what goes in
the dist.  If the majority want something out, it should be taken out.

>

Shaya


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