Just for the record, in case the package maintainer or policy group look at this thread hoping for representative opinions:
On Fri, Jan 1, 2016 at 5:31 AM, Gary Dale <garyd...@torfree.net> wrote: > On 31/12/15 03:10 PM, Gary Dale wrote: >> >> On 31/12/15 06:15 AM, Fernando Arenas wrote: >>> >>> First my sincere congratulations to the entire team that works every day >>> to improve this wonderful operating system. >>> The reason for writing to you is to have found in a package called >>> openclipart2 clipsarts clearly sexist content in which women are presented >>> as sex objects. So I ask you to withdraw these images and improve its >>> protocols for such content is not put back into their servers. >>> I hate that my children may find these images when they perform their >>> work for the school. >>> Only in Spain during 2015 male violence he has killed 62 women. Do not >>> you contribute to promoting ideas about women favoring these behaviors. >>> >>> greetings from >>> Fernando Arenas >>> >>> https://packages.debian.org/wheezy/all/openclipart2-png/filelist >>> https://packages.debian.org/sid/all/openclipart2-png/filelist >> >> >> I will note that the package is not available for Jessie or Stretch except >> as a download from Sid.I gather the package maintainer has a problem with it >> too. Perhaps the openclipart packages should be divided into categories >> which would allow for more targeted downloads. People looking for animal >> clipart, for example, may not want furniture clipart installed as well. This >> would allow for "sexy-female" and "sexy-male" packages that aren't installed >> except by explicit request. >> > My apologies for the above comment. Up until reading Fernando's post, I > wasn't aware of openclipart2. I personally see no reason for you to apologize for your suggestion. It would take a bit of work, but non-programmers who want to help could do a few at a time and it would help make openclipart2 more useful for everyone. One volunteer by him/herself would get worn out, yes, and I wouldn't ask the package maintainer to categorize the whole list without help. > I note that it is substantially larger than > openclipart and is organized by contributor, not by topic. And that makes it less useful than it would b if organized by topic. It would have been nice if we had the contributors' opinions about the categorization as a starting point, too, if I were making wishes. > Following my > suggestion would be hugely time consuming and achieve very little. Strongly disagree. Clipart is only useful when you can find what you are looking for. > Looking at the images that were identified, I find little justification in > the original complaint. One can easily accidentally stumble across far more > provocative content on Facebook. > The comment on facebook aside, I looked at the first twenty or so images in the list, and I agree that the general point of view is very much one that treats people as objects. I would not want my children finding those when looking for clipart. In my opinion, a complaint is justified here. Those should be sorted out into a separate package, at minimum. -- Joel Rees Ranting is free. http://free-is-not-free.blogspot.jp/
