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FS#76878 - [gxkb] The author breaks functionality for political reasons

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Eugene Diachkin (Ineu) - Monday, 19 December 2022, 07:57 GMT
Last edited by Toolybird (Toolybird) - Monday, 19 December 2022, 20:32 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:

After the upgrade to 0.9.4 the russian flag was removed from the package. After investigating I found this: https://github.com/zen-tools/gxkb/commit/c93458256f924dd97efc23f3f3b510efc1f0a4c6

Such a behavior should be considered inappropriate for the open source community, not to mention it breaks the functionality for the users of the russian layout, which is widely used, being one of the UN's official languages.

Thus I consider this package should either be locked at 0.9.3, or removed from the Arch repos altogether.

Thank you.
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Closed by  Toolybird (Toolybird)
Monday, 19 December 2022, 20:32 GMT
Reason for closing:  None
Additional comments about closing:  See comments
Comment by Toolybird (Toolybird) - Monday, 19 December 2022, 20:32 GMT
Arch is a packager of upstream software and doesn't get involved in political matters. This is covered in the Code Of Conduct [1]. As mentioned in the comments of the upstream commit, flags of any country can be placed under special directory in XDG_DATA_HOME.

[1] https://terms.archlinux.org/docs/code-of-conduct/#controversycontroversial-topics

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