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><liw> HE, we had sex in Debian for many years, yes, before I put a stop to it

Could someone explain wtf this means?

It's an email signature in poor taste, referring to a very old package intentionally named to be in equally poor taste: http://archive.debian.org/debian/pool/main/s/sex/

This kind of thing shouldn't be in an email signature at all, but especially not in a mail sent to a widely distributed announcement list.

It seems that the author of the program himself isn't proud anymore, omitting the accomplishment of making and naming it from his CV.

Probably related to the "Simple editor for X".

Ah, that makes more sense than OSS devs getting laid ;)

Hey, Ian Murdock did name Debian after him and his girlfriend...

They did break up though.

This whole sub-thread: DAAAAAAMN! Haha. Let it be a warning to OSS developers thinking of mixing business and pleasure. Except for the pleasure of coding. :)

It's one of those old "jokes", like the SEX instruction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEX_(computing)

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