On 21 November 2017 at 14:01, Ian Jackson <ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote: > We have an (AFAICT informal) convention that packages with offensive > content, or content in questionable taste, should have names ending in > -off. This abbreviation is unnecessary, and increases the chances > that someone will install such a thing by mistake. > > (If cowsay-off had been called cowsay-offensive, #882085 would > probably have been discovered rather sooner and in a rather better > way.) > > I would like to suggest that we rename all such packages to > "foo-offensive" for buster. (Also, the highest dependency on such a > package from a non-"-offensive" package should be Suggests.) > > AFAICT 3 packages are affected: fortunes (and its translations), > cowsay, and purity. >
I agree. Not involved in any of the packages, but I guess that whatever agreement we make it is worth documenting elsewhere apart of the mailing list archive. Wiki? policy?
