https://labs.parabola.nu/https://labs.parabola.nu/favicon.ico?15367742552023-03-23T01:42:22ZParabola Issue TrackerPackages - Freedom Issue #3063: [cowsay]: blacklist entryhttps://labs.parabola.nu/issues/3063?journal_id=187122023-03-23T01:42:22Zbill-auger
<ul></ul><p>looking into this more, there is no reason to use debian as the upstream - indeed, the original upstream is abandoned, as is it's website; but the original author uploaded the code-base to github (read-only), as a parting gift - that frozen repo is the source for the arch package - apparently, debian is not aware of that, though it happened about 7 years ago - debian appears to believe that the source code is not available anywhere else; and probably that is why the parabola devs used debian as the upstream</p>
<p>there is also a fork which aims to continue maintenance; and it is the only fork with a website</p>
<p>WRT licensing, when the original author uploaded the code-base to github, he also removed the PERL license and changed it to a single license 'GPLv3-only' - that final release was logged in the change-log as v3.04 (another indication that debian is unaware of it) - that is why the arch package is a version ahead of parabola</p>
<p>i recently added an animation feature; but am not sure where to publish it - that's why i especially wanted to get to the bottom of this finally - the new fork has new cows and has made several releases of it's own; so i offered my changes to that upstream - if it is accepted, i will probably need to re-work my patches; because the diff is substantial; but then the parabola package would have a healthy upstream - if my feature is not accepted, it makes most sense to use the same upstream as arch</p>
<p>alternatively, we could simply ignore my new feature - in which case, i dont see why this package needs to be replaced at all, other than the offensive[sic] and vaguely copyright-infringing cows (such as beavis and darth vader) - though debian did not remove beavis, darth vader, or the other dubious "fan art" anyways - parabola has been distributing those all along, though parabola has most often deleted such dubious things, whenever they are noticed</p>
<p>so what i did? - i changed the PKGBUILD to the frozen github upstream (same as arch), and simply deleted those dubious files in a mksource() (it deletes more than debian does now), and patched in my new feature</p> Packages - Freedom Issue #3063: [cowsay]: blacklist entryhttps://labs.parabola.nu/issues/3063?journal_id=187132023-03-23T01:42:53Zbill-auger
<ul><li><strong>Assignee</strong> set to <i>bill-auger</i></li></ul> Packages - Freedom Issue #3063: [cowsay]: blacklist entryhttps://labs.parabola.nu/issues/3063?journal_id=187142023-03-23T01:43:00Zbill-auger
<ul><li><strong>Status</strong> changed from <i>open</i> to <i>fixed</i></li></ul>