Bug#1035100: Unrelated political statement in main UI
Dominik George
natureshadow at debian.org
Sat Apr 29 17:23:44 BST 2023
Package: thonny
Version: 4.0.1-1
Severity: important
Tags: upstream
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Thonny now has a Ukraine flag in its main UI, linking to a GitHub page
about the Russian invasion.
This is problematic for two reasons:
* Thonny is used for education, and education should, inherently,
be free of political views, if not related to the subject of
the course
* GitHub invades on user privacy, and the main UI should not
drop users into a browser leading to a privacy-invading web
platform
(The second point is even worse for the Python Tutor linked from the menu,
which is a shitload of tracking and advertising; will be reported separately.)
The Ukraine button should be removed (even though I personally agree with
the linked content.
This issue is a blocker for using Thonny for its original purpose, and the
context of the target group of its packaging team.
Cheers,
NIk
- -- System Information:
Debian Release: 12.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-6-amd64 (SMP w/20 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages thonny depends on:
ii mypy 1.0.1-1
ii pylint 2.16.2-2
ii python3 3.11.2-1+b1
ii python3-asttokens 2.2.1-1
ii python3-docutils 0.19+dfsg-6
ii python3-jedi 0.18.2-1
ii python3-mypy 1.0.1-1
ii python3-pip 23.0.1+dfsg-1
ii python3-pkg-resources 66.1.1-1
ii python3-send2trash 1.8.1~b0-2
ii python3-serial 3.5-1.1
ii python3-tk 3.11.2-2
ii python3-venv 3.11.2-1+b1
ii python3-wheel 0.38.4-2
Versions of packages thonny recommends:
ii xsel 1.2.0+git9bfc13d.20180109-4
ii zenity 3.44.0-1
Versions of packages thonny suggests:
ii python3-distro 1.8.0-1
- -- no debconf information
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