Debian's Anti-Harassment Team Is Removing A Package Over Its Name
Found on Phoronix on Friday, 21 December 2018
When digging further, the package raised to the Debian Anti-Harassment Team was "Weboob." Weboob is short for "Web Outside of Browsers" as it's an open-source collection of software to script and automate the parsing/scraping/gathering-via-API of web data so that it can be consumed by different modules/applications.
A few months back though the issue was raised over the name/project having sexual references and that goes against the Debian Diversity Statement and values.
The Debian Anti-Harassment Team ruled that Weboob is against the Debian Code of Conduct in needing to be respectful.
This stupid crap of these first world problems is getting so ridiculous. What's next? Are "man pages" sexist? Will the word "packages" be removed from everywhere? No more unzipping? With idiotic acts that look like nothing more than an embarrassing attempt to justify their existance, that team is just stepping closer to be considered useless. It makes you wonder who really is childish here.