Re: Bug#661565: ITP: nyancat -- Terminal-based Pop Tart Cat animation

2012-02-29 Thread Miles Bader
Jonathan McCrohan jmccro...@gmail.com writes: I certainly don't plan on uploading and abandoning this package, but given the high level of opposition to this ITP, guess there is little point pursuing it. There's some whining by the usual sorts, but why would anyone pay attention to them...?

Re: Bug#661565: ITP: nyancat -- Terminal-based Pop Tart Cat animation

2012-02-28 Thread Steve McIntyre
Jonathan McCrohan wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonathan McCrohan jmccro...@gmail.com * Package name: nyancat Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Kevin Lange k...@dakko.us * URL : http://miku.acm.uiuc.edu/ * License : NCSA Programming Lang: C

Re: Bug#661565: ITP: nyancat -- Terminal-based Pop Tart Cat animation

2012-02-28 Thread Lars Wirzenius
In the humorless jerks complaining department: On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 01:23:15AM +, Jonathan McCrohan wrote: * Package name: nyancat * URL : http://miku.acm.uiuc.edu/ Nyancat is an animated, color, ANSI-text telnet server that renders a loop of the classic Nyan Cat

Re: Bug#661565: ITP: nyancat -- Terminal-based Pop Tart Cat animation

2012-02-28 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Lars Wirzenius l...@liw.fi, 2012-02-28, 12:58: Nyancat is an animated, color, ANSI-text telnet server that renders a loop of the classic Nyan Cat animation. Nyancat can also be run as a standalone program in a local terminal if telnet functionality is not required. Is this worth including

Re: Bug#661565: ITP: nyancat -- Terminal-based Pop Tart Cat animation

2012-02-28 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 28/02/12 09:08 AM, Jakub Wilk wrote: * Lars Wirzenius l...@liw.fi, 2012-02-28, 12:58: Is this worth including in Debian? It's funny for several microfortnights, but how many people really need to install this? Completely agreed. We should not accept any new packages in section games and

Re: Bug#661565: ITP: nyancat -- Terminal-based Pop Tart Cat animation

2012-02-28 Thread Joey Hess
I suggest a compromise. Include the nyancat program into the existing robotfindskitten package. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bug#661565: ITP: nyancat -- Terminal-based Pop Tart Cat animation

2012-02-28 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, 2012-02-28 at 11:52 +, Steve McIntyre wrote: Jonathan McCrohan wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonathan McCrohan jmccro...@gmail.com * Package name: nyancat Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Kevin Lange k...@dakko.us * URL :

Re: Bug#661565: ITP: nyancat -- Terminal-based Pop Tart Cat animation

2012-02-28 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 04:05:12PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Tue, 2012-02-28 at 11:52 +, Steve McIntyre wrote: Jonathan McCrohan wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonathan McCrohan jmccro...@gmail.com * Package name: nyancat Version : 0.1 Upstream

Do we really need to package everything? (was: Bug#661565: ITP: nyancat -- Terminal-based Pop Tart Cat animation)

2012-02-28 Thread David Prévot
Le 28/02/2012 09:44, Ben Armstrong a écrit : * Lars Wirzenius l...@liw.fi, 2012-02-28, 12:58: Debian already has 35 thousand binary packages. Do we really need to package everything? Even a tiny software toy brings a bit of burden to the entire project: ... translators need to translate the

Re: Bug#661565: ITP: nyancat -- Terminal-based Pop Tart Cat animation

2012-02-28 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Ben Armstrong sy...@sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca, 2012-02-28, 09:44: Debian already has 35 thousand binary packages. Do we really need to package everything? Even a tiny software toy brings a bit of burden to the entire project: ... translators need to translate the description, etc. New

Re: Bug#661565: ITP: nyancat -- Terminal-based Pop Tart Cat animation

2012-02-28 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Steve McIntyre st...@einval.com, 2012-02-28, 16:20: I've just done lots of QA work tracking down build failures while bootstrapping a new architecture, typically in pet packages that have gone largely unmaintained after a small number of uploads. Out of curiosity, why are pet packages

Re: Bug#661565: ITP: nyancat -- Terminal-based Pop Tart Cat animation

2012-02-28 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 08:25:31PM +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote: * Steve McIntyre st...@einval.com, 2012-02-28, 16:20: I've just done lots of QA work tracking down build failures while bootstrapping a new architecture, typically in pet packages that have gone largely unmaintained after a small

Are translations useful? (was: Bug#661565: ITP: nyancat -- Terminal-based Pop Tart Cat animation)

2012-02-28 Thread David Prévot
Le 28/02/2012 15:22, Jakub Wilk a écrit : Are translators held in a labor camp and forced to translate descriptions of every single package? I thought that they are volunteers, and that they translate stuff because it's fun for them. I thought translations were useful for our users, and that

Re: Bug#661565: ITP: nyancat -- Terminal-based Pop Tart Cat animation

2012-02-28 Thread Jonathan McCrohan
Humm. I didn't expect that this ITP would generate so much discussion. :-/ On 28/02/12 16:20, Steve McIntyre wrote: On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 04:05:12PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Tue, 2012-02-28 at 11:52 +, Steve McIntyre wrote: And what value does this bring to Debian? Are such

Re: Bug#661565: ITP: nyancat -- Terminal-based Pop Tart Cat animation

2012-02-28 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 08:16:03PM +, Ben Hutchings a écrit : On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 08:25:31PM +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote: * Steve McIntyre st...@einval.com, 2012-02-28, 16:20: I've just done lots of QA work tracking down build failures while bootstrapping a new architecture, typically

Re: Bug#661565: ITP: nyancat -- Terminal-based Pop Tart Cat animation

2012-02-28 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 8:07 AM, Charles Plessy wrote: if a couple of gag programs can not upgraded.  Couldn't we keep a place in our namespace and our mirrors for such programs, in a section where best effort is the rule ?  I do understand it is not that easy; security comes to mind

Re: Bug#661565: ITP: nyancat -- Terminal-based Pop Tart Cat animation

2012-02-28 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 7:30 AM, Jonathan McCrohan wrote: I certainly don't plan on uploading and abandoning this package, but given the high level of opposition to this ITP, guess there is little point pursuing it. I would suggest joining the Debian games team, we might sponsor this, since

Bug#661565: ITP: nyancat -- Terminal-based Pop Tart Cat animation

2012-02-27 Thread Jonathan McCrohan
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonathan McCrohan jmccro...@gmail.com * Package name: nyancat Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Kevin Lange k...@dakko.us * URL : http://miku.acm.uiuc.edu/ * License : NCSA Programming Lang: C Description :