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#54691
fortune-mod propagates various non-nice things
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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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Message #38 received at 54691 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler <at> student.tugraz.at> writes:
> merge 56599 54691
> thanks
>
> Am Samstag, dem 16.07.2022 um 14:21 +0200 schrieb raingloom:
>> * gnu/packages/games.scm (fortune-mod): Delete off database after
>> install phase.
>> ---
>> gnu/packages/games.scm | 5 ++++-
>> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/gnu/packages/games.scm b/gnu/packages/games.scm
>> index 713f9339b2..cf10ebc9b6 100644
>> --- a/gnu/packages/games.scm
>> +++ b/gnu/packages/games.scm
>> @@ -7721,7 +7721,10 @@ (define-public fortune-mod
>> (lambda _
>> (with-directory-excursion #$output
>> (rename-file "games/fortune" "bin/fortune")
>> - (rmdir "games")))))))
>> + (rmdir "games"))))
>> + (add-after 'install 'commit-censorship
>> + (lambda* (#:key outputs #:allow-other-keys)
>> + (delete-file-recursively (string-append
> Truly offensive files should be removed with a snippet rather than a
> funnily named phase. I'm not sure if this applies to all of off, but
> let it be said, that there's plenty of fortunes that'd violate the CoC
> in files not labeled as such. Some files could probably be salvaged if
> we only removed some quotes – for example limericks about numbers are
> probably fine, but other limericks aren't. Furthermore, we should also
> revise the list of fortunes not in off, men-women is just an alternate
> spelling of sexism.
>
> Cheers
That's probably better done as a fork of upstream. If no one wants to do
that, I wouldn't miss the package if it got yeeted. :shrug:
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