Personally I find the story of Daryl Davis inspiring, and believe such
approach have higher chances of success than one using contempt and
rejection.
<URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daryl_Davis >
<URL: https://www.npr.org/2017/08/20/544861933/how-one-man-convinced-200-ku-klux-klan-members-to-give-up-their-robes >
The Homepage URL is a statement of fact about a package, ie its origin
and where users can check out the upstream information. It is also
useful to track down upstream if it move in the future. It is not a
useful marketing channel, but can improve search engine ranking slightly
due to its use within Debian. I believe the advantages of machine
readable links to the package origin outweigh any improved search
ranking, as I believe the latter is very minuscule.
If I understand the objections about the code, it is about the strings
'#WLM' and 'Nanos gigantum humeris insidentes.'. The former seem to be
a reference to 'white lives matters', a sad reaction to the 'black lives
matter' movement that have gained traction the last few years[1], and
the latter is a reference to a cristian quote initially from Bernard of
Chartres, according to wikipedia[2], and later made more known by Isac
Newton. As I see it these strings have no operational function for the
software and I have no attachment to them whatsoever. I understand that
the objections is regarding believed intent behind the strings. I do
not see any point in spending time discussing them, and thus removed
them from the binary. In my opinion they have no marketing or
promotional value in the source, so I see very little gain from taking
the extra work to repack the tarball with these 9 lines from the source
code
[1] <URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Lives_Matter >
[2] <URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standing_on_the_shoulders_of_giants >
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Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen