2015-05-02 14:46 GMT+02:00 Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx>: > Hi, > > Disclaimer: this is my personal opinion not that of my employer ... > > On 02-05-15 11:38, Miriam Ruiz wrote: >> >> Hi! >> >> We have just been warned, in a couple of Debian mailing lists [1] [2], >> that release 0.9 of the game SuperTuxKart [3] includes sexualized >> depictions of a woman in a bikini throughout the game [4] (and in the >> official poster too [5]). >> >> Some of us are concerned about that, the game being targeted >> essentially at kids. You can read those threads in our mailing lists >> to get more information, if you haven't aready. >> >> I was wondering if any of your distros has already dealt with this >> and, if so, how have you handled it? > > > In Fedora we are working on updating the supertuxkart packages to 0.9, > they are not ready / available yet. So far no-one has explicitly made > a decision about the "controversy" surrounding Sara. > > I've been following the thread on the Debian games list, and I've tried > to stay out of it, because IMHO it is lots ado about nothing. > > Most of the nay sayers have no clue what they are talking > about they are just joining the bandwagon without having informed > themselves at all, quoting from the thread: > > "that there is another important point which nobody has mentioned so far: > Sara is the *only* female character in the whole game. and guess what, > she's useless, not driving any kart and only there because of her > aesthetics." > > That is so wrong it just ain't funny. The Sara model was designed as a > cart driver, and then later on, one entire release later to be exact, > when they needed some models of people to fill their "fantasy south > American" village re-used. Thanks, Hans! I haven't played the latest version of the game myself and I'm not personally involved in its packaging, so I wanted to know if it was a concern for other distros too, and if they were going to do something about it. There seems to be people okay with it, and others with serious concerns. If I was personally involved in the packaging, I would probably consider patching it. As I'm not (and I don't really plan to be) I would be happy with just a warning in the package description so that parents and teachers know everything beforehand and can choose. Lots of thanks for your input!! :) Greetings, Miry _______________________________________________ games mailing list games@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/games
