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#42401
28.0.50; gnus-slave renamed to gnus-child
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Reported by: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2020 00:57:02 UTC
Severity: normal
Tags: fixed, moreinfo
Found in version 28.0.50
Fixed in version 28.1
Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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Message #5 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
For some reason, gnus-slave has been renamed to gnus-child without
appropriate aliases. Reacting to the latest ridiculousness occuring in
society is already stupid, but breaking backwards compatibility for them
is even worse. The term `slave' used in the `gnus-slave' sense has no
connotations towards racism or slavery. Similarly, the term
`gnus-child' has no connotations towards adult-ism or child
'oppression', if we ever get to that. Instead of changing things at
random, why don't we just stick with one name that works? I doubt it's
possible to find any term that doesn't become offensive at one point.
(P.S: I'm asian and I find the face `term-color-yellow' offensive /s)
In GNU Emacs 28.0.50 (build 466, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.98.5, cairo version 1.17.3)
of 2020-07-14 built on local-build-system
Repository revision: a3f4f737ce2d31b143586ded6697e910248dfb87
Repository branch: mashup
Windowing system distributor 'The GNU project's GTK toolkit.', version 3.98.5
System Description: Fedora 32 (Workstation Edition)
This bug report was last modified 4 years and 360 days ago.
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