GNU bug report logs - #54691
fortune-mod propagates various non-nice things

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Maxime Devos <maximedevos <at> telenet.be>

Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2022 13:10:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Maxime Devos <maximedevos <at> telenet.be>
Subject: bug#54691: closed (Re: [PATCH v3 1/6] build-system: copy: Support
 #:tests?.)
Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2022 22:17:02 +0000

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Your bug report

#54691: fortune-mod propagates various non-nice things

which was filed against the guix package, has been closed.

The explanation is attached below, along with your original report.
If you require more details, please reply to 54691 <at> debbugs.gnu.org.

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From: Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler <at> gmail.com>
To: 54691-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>,
 Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me <at> tobias.gr>, Maxime Devos <maximedevos <at> telenet.be>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/6] build-system: copy: Support #:tests?.
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2022 00:16:33 +0200

Am Samstag, dem 13.08.2022 um 11:26 +0200 schrieb Liliana Marie
Prikler:
> * guix/build-system/copy.scm (copy-build): Pass tests? to builder.
> ---
I pushed this patch to core-updates and the rest to master; fortune-mod
is now removed and the replacement build (albeit with tests disabled
until the next c-u merge).

Cheers


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From: Maxime Devos <maximedevos <at> telenet.be>
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: fortune-mod propagates various non-nice things
Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2022 15:09:25 +0200

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Hi guix,

fortune-mod currently propagates (in the non-technical sense) various
non-nice things like objectification, misogeny, religious intolerance,
anti-mathematician-ism (?) and date rape.  That is not an exhaustive
list, these are just the first few things I encountered with "fortune
off".

To reproduce the issue, run "fortune off" a few times.  Or just
"fortune", though then it can take a bit longer.

There are also a few non-nice things in the non-off set.  E.g.:

$ fortune
> User n.:
>	A programmer who will believe anything you tell him.
# ^ from 'definitions'

As such, just removing 'off' doesn't seem sufficient.  Unless Someone™
volunteers to remove the anti-fortunes (*), I would just remove
'fortune-mod', given that it seems to serve no practical purpose byond
being non-nice.  WDYT?

(*) Fortunes don't have to be positive, but that doesn't mean they need
to be sexist (genderist?) or insulting either (e.g.:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortune_cookie#/media/File:Negative_fortune_cookie.jpg).
Hence, anti-fortunes instead of fortunes.

Greeting,
Maxime

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