source code heavily insulting

Bug #220907 reported by Martin Pitt
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
quodlibet (Debian)
Fix Released
Unknown
quodlibet (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
High
Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: quodlibet

"file:///Sebastian/Droge/please/choke/on/a/bucket/of/cocks" -- What the heck? What has a personal major insult like this to do in free software source code? Sebastian is a great guy and an active and motivated community member, and above and beyond that a human being who deserves some basic respect!

Insults against things/code are very common in free software ("argh, workaround for that crappy patch"), but this goes waaay to far. It deserves an apology and a bug fix.

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Martin Pitt (pitti)
Changed in quodlibet:
importance: Undecided → High
status: New → Confirmed
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Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote :

daniel@bert:~/1/quodlibet-1.x$ svn diff -r 4026:4027
Index: player.py
===================================================================
--- player.py (Revision 4026)
+++ player.py (Revision 4027)
@@ -287,7 +287,9 @@

 def init(pipeline, librarian):
     gst.debug_set_default_threshold(gst.LEVEL_ERROR)
- if gst.element_make_from_uri(gst.URI_SRC, "file://", ""):
+ if gst.element_make_from_uri(
+ gst.URI_SRC,
+ "file:///Sebastian/Droge/please/choke/on/a/bucket/of/cocks", ""):
         global playlist
         playlist = PlaylistPlayer(pipeline or "gconfaudiosink", librarian)
         return playlist
daniel@bert:~/1/quodlibet-1.x$ svn log -r 4026:4027
------------------------------------------------------------------------
r4027 | piman | 2007-04-27 05:17:05 +0200 (Fr, 27 Apr 2007) | 1 line

player.init: Give a fake filename to trick GStreamer 0.10.12's filesrc.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
daniel@bert:~/1/quodlibet-1.x$

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Mark Shuttleworth (sabdfl) wrote :

This is very, very disappointing. I'm very proud of the caliber of dialogue in Ubuntu, and especially of the Code of Conduct, and am ashamed that someone in the project found it necessary to spill this bile into their code. Martin, Daniel, can you let the Community Council know who we should follow up on this with? An apology is certainly called for. And please do remove the insulting text.

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Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote :

Sebastian Dröge filed a bug in Debian, which ended up on the quodlibet upstream mailing list: http://lists.sacredchao.net/quodlibet/msg01986.html

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

Mark, Joe Wreschnig (https://launchpad.net/~piman) is not involved in Ubuntu at all (0 karma, no teams, no CoC), he works on quodlibet on the Debian and upstream side. This code was not introduced through Ubuntu, I just stumbled over it when I reviewed an (unrelated) quodlibet change in the release management queue.

I'll write a short mail to the CC anyway, in case they want to do something about it.

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Mark Shuttleworth (sabdfl) wrote : Re: [Bug 220907] Re: source code heavily insulting

Martin Pitt wrote:
> Mark, Joe Wreschnig (https://launchpad.net/~piman) is not involved in
> Ubuntu at all (0 karma, no teams, no CoC), he works on quodlibet on the
> Debian and upstream side. This code was not introduced through Ubuntu, I
> just stumbled over it when I reviewed an (unrelated) quodlibet change in
> the release management queue.
>
> I'll write a short mail to the CC anyway, in case they want to do
> something about it.
>
OK, thanks Martin. I'm very relieved this was not an Ubuntu issue, but
still disappointed it happened in Debian. Let's fix it in Ubuntu
nonetheless.

Mark

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Luca Falavigna (dktrkranz) wrote :

Upstream "fixed" it: http://www.sacredchao.net/quodlibet/changeset/4267
A complete URI rewrite would be advisable, IMHO.

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Nistor Hamd (blank-196) wrote :

>OK, thanks Martin. I'm very relieved this was not an Ubuntu issue, but
>still disappointed it happened in Debian. Let's fix it in Ubuntu
>nonetheless.

How's it feel when the world revolves around you? Does it make you dizzy? It didn't "happen in Debian." It has nothing to do with Debian *or* Ubuntu, and especially as the project's been around as long as Ubuntu, I don't think you've got the moral authority to start demanding apologies. Does Ubuntu scrub all the swearing out of comments in the linux kernel? How long have you been on the internet? Surely long enough to discover the ancient African concept of "uyamzonda."

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Mike Basinger (mike.basinger) wrote :

Much of the foul language in the kernel and other open source projects are complaints about the code itself and not direct attacks against an individual. Maybe this is something the community should look at fixing if we want Linux/Open Source users to be viewed more than hackers and hobbyist.

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Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote :

Nistor: calm down - you misunderstand.

Mark thought the comment had been added by an Ubuntu developer, in which case the Community Council would have been in the right place to ask for an apology as it "is the custodian of the Code of Conduct and is responsible for dispute resolution, should it be required." An Ubuntu developer (as a member of the Ubuntu community) has to sign the Code of Conduct (http://www.ubuntu.com/community/conduct) before.

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

Nistor Hamd [2008-04-24 21:51 -0000]:
> How's it feel when the world revolves around you? Does it make you
> dizzy? It didn't "happen in Debian." It has nothing to do with Debian
> *or* Ubuntu, and especially as the project's been around as long as
> Ubuntu,

All of those is irrelevant here.

> I don't think you've got the moral authority to start demanding
> apologies.

Sebastian has, though. This is not about code, it's about public
insulting of a person. Would you feel good if such a thing had your
name on it?

> Does Ubuntu scrub all the swearing out of comments in the
> linux kernel?

I did not see personal insults there so far.

Changed in quodlibet:
status: Unknown → Confirmed
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package quodlibet - 1.0.ds1-2ubuntu1

---------------
quodlibet (1.0.ds1-2ubuntu1) intrepid; urgency=low

  * Merge from Debian unstable, remaining Ubuntu changes:
    + debian/patches/40-use-music-profile.patch:
      - Use the "Music and Movies" pipeline per default.
  * Fix LP: #220907.

quodlibet (1.0.ds1-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Alter README.Debian note so as to avoid mentioning the problematic line of
    code.

quodlibet (1.0.ds1-1) unstable; urgency=high

  * Ship modified upstream tarball, removing insulting source code, and put a
    note in README.Debian to explain why we're doing this (closes: #477454).
  * Add Vcs-Darcs field.
  * Add Homepage field.
  * Update my e-mail address.
  * Stop updating .po files during build.

 -- Luca Falavigna <email address hidden> Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:25:39 +0200

Changed in quodlibet:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
Changed in quodlibet:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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