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Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 09:51:29 -0800 (PST)
From: "Peter A. Castro" <doctor AT fruitbat DOT org>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: fortune maintainer wanted and question for Corinna (was Re: Obscene content in cygwin file.)
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On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> On Jan  7 01:28, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
> > Right now I'm looking at the debian packages instead:
> >   http://packages.debian.org/unstable/source/fortune-mod
> >   http://packages.debian.org/unstable/source/fortunes-bofh-excuses
> >
> > which generate 5 packages: fortune-mod (the binaries),
> > fortunes-min, fortunes, fortunes-off, and fortunes-bofh-excuses.
> >
> > If these look ok to me, do you see any problem with using them instead?
> > (There are also a lot of non-English data files packages that I'm not
> > going to mess with at the moment.)
>
> Personally I'd rather see only one fortune package.  Using the -o
> plus rot13 technique should really do it.

I'm with Corinna here.  Fortune does not warrant 5 packages, or even 3.
One package is sufficient.  ROT13 and mark the limericks with -o and move
on.  Deviating from an already established convention for packaging a
given program is just asking for trouble, and you're artificially making
more work than is necessary.  K.I.S.S. !!

> Corinna

-- 
Peter A. Castro <doctor AT fruitbat DOT org> or <Peter DOT Castro AT oracle DOT com>
	"Cats are just autistic Dogs" -- Dr. Tony Attwood

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