Bug#1035100: Unrelated political statement in main UI

[Dominik George]

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

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