[Fedora-packaging] How to deal with the porn part of a package?

T.C. Hollingsworth tchollingsworth at gmail.com
Wed Jul 10 05:52:53 UTC 2013


On 7/8/13, Christopher Meng <cickumqt at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 11:34 AM, Juan Pablo Botero
> <juanpabloboterolopez at gmail.com> wrote:
>> EMO, if is a possible solution.
>>
>> What about put them in another package?, as an extension
>
> Well, in fact I want to retire this package, guidelines disallows
> something with porn. And, as this pkg release a version per day, it's
> really hard to maintain it and after some updates more porn sites may
> be introduced also. On the
> other hand, this package has self-update function, I cannot ensure
> porn extractors are still disappeared after updating.

On the contrary, this type of software has been explicitly permitted
by the Fedora Board:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=503013#c21

So you are not required to remove it from the package collection.  If
it is possible to split off the porn sites into a subpackage you may
do so, but nothing requires you to.

If you're still not interested in maintaining it, please orphan it
instead of retiring it.  I find this package very useful and would be
happy to take it over.

-T.C.


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