I've discovered that currently, as of Ubuntu 22.10, Ubuntu distributes a package called "fortunes-off" that is full of homophobia, Hitler quotes, virulent misogyny, racism, and more, for the "fortunes" program
All the text in it is ROT13'd so it doesn't show up on searches. Text pulled from the .deb available live on Universe: https://packages.ubuntu.com/kinetic/fortunes-off
@atomicthumbs "the original author(s) of the
fortune distribution state that "racist, mysogynist [sic] (sexist), or
homophobic ideas" should never be included in the fortune database.
This was not the case when the database came into my possession"
Now I want to know when/how those were added, I thought they were always there.
@vikxin @atomicthumbs archive.org has a good selection of old versions of debian
https://archive.org/details/debian_1.1 has the fortunes/fortunes-o files before the re-sorting mentioned above, way less Hitler than the current .deb
Obtained here (Contains both i386 binaries and sources.) Debian Linux Distribution Release 1.1 Now Available To: [email protected] Subject:...
None of the particular examples shown above are present in the package as it existed in Debian 2.2 "potato" circa 2000. This isn't "ancient", it's ongoing, or at least was at some point in the past couple decades.
@atomicthumbs @dave I've followed up on this and have submitted a PR to the upstream repository to make both offensive content and content obfuscation opt-in. That should make it very obvious to anyone building and/or packaging what gets built and installed. It will be much easier to ask for changes from then on.
Fair warning: this commit is a bit on the philosophical side. We currently build and install offensive cookies by default. This is a problem because those cookies are obfuscated, meaning that syste...
@atomicthumbs let it be noted that easily 95% of the packages Ubuntu distributes are taken, unreviewed, from Debian, who is considered a trusted upstream. Most of the time, this is a sane default.
Most of the time.
Now that I am aware, I have taken action to remove the content from Ubuntu releases going forward:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fortune-mod/+bug/1996682
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fortune-mod/1:1.99.1-7.1ubuntu1
I haven't decided whether to have the battle in Debian about removal. There are more pro-fascists in Debian than there ought to be.
"I've discovered that currently, as of Ubuntu 22.10, Ubuntu distributes a package called "fortunes-off" that is full of homophobia, Hitler quotes, virulent misogyny, racism, and more, for the "fortunes" program" https://mastodon.social/@.../109349931159589086 This kind of content is not consistent with Ubuntu values and should not be distributed as part of Ubuntu, regardless of whether it is hidden by a content warning and made opt-in. Like many packages in the Ubuntu archive, this package...
Thankfully, it looks like fortune doesn't get installed by default - at least not on mine. I wonder if they're going to also pull the Italian and Spanish offensive packages from the repo.
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