Consider the amount of effort collectively spent by people in that thread trying to justify not spending the time to modify a single line of code, where the fix

Consider the amount of effort collectively spent by people in that thread trying to justify not spending the time to modify a single line of code, where the fix is just to substitute in any other meaningless string placeholder. Any single person involved could have applied the fix in several orders of magnitude less time than they spent typing a reply. I mostly skimmed the inane discussion, but I think at one point someone was trying to make the argument "if we're going to fix this, we also have to fix every occurrence of profanity within the entire Debian codebase"? Given that was 12 years ago, it would be interesting to hear the same people's current reactions to their response at the time.