FS#76593 - [fortune-mod] is problematic and illegal

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Luna D Dragon (nullrequest) - Wednesday, 16 November 2022, 01:43 GMT
Last edited by George Rawlinson (rawlinsong) - Wednesday, 16 November 2022, 16:58 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To Kyle Keen (keenerd)
George Rawlinson (rawlinsong)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:

Fortune-mod was added in ye old days of SVN. there's no really history of who added it etc. normally upstream fortune is split into 2 packages fortune & fortune-off and down stream distros follow this(eg ubuntu/debian) some eg fedora out right remove this package. however arch uses a fork that undoes this split. The split was created as fortune's -o flag reads from `/usr/share/fortune/off/*`.

This directory contains things like nazi rhetoric, hate speech etc all hidden away using rot-13 ensuring it doesn't show up in regular text search. In Germany for example this package is outright illegal as `/usr/share/fortune/off/` contains things like Nazi swastikas. We should either follow the normal fortune or just remove it out right.
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Closed by  George Rawlinson (rawlinsong)
Wednesday, 16 November 2022, 16:58 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by Luna D Dragon (nullrequest) - Wednesday, 16 November 2022, 02:39 GMT
It seems by using -DNO_OFFENSIVE=TRUE we can build fortune without the insults but the PKGBUILD explicitly sets it to OFF

https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-community/blob/c7e0c667834ac1bdc84828da29c48550741588fa/trunk/PKGBUILD#L33
Comment by George Rawlinson (rawlinsong) - Wednesday, 16 November 2022, 07:35 GMT
There’s offensive, and then there’s *offensive*. I didn’t realise it was gated behind the -o flag otherwise it would’ve been disabled when I picked up maintenance of the package.

I’ll look into disabling it tomorrow, it’s currently 2030 and I don’t really want to get out of bed right now.

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