On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 11:43:55PM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 11:47:35PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 08:40:16PM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > > >On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 11:26:08PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > >>On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 02:36:53PM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >>>Not sure if the highly obscene limericks (/usr/share/fortune/limerick) > > >>>are meant to be in the cygwin distro... > > >> > > >>Wow. I think I vaguely recall that something like this was in fortune > > >>but, if I thought it was a good idea a couple of years ago, I have > > >>obviously grown more prudish since then. > > >> > > >>AFAICT, our fortune maintainer is long gone so I guess we're looking > > >>for a volunteer who would like to take up this package. I don't know > > >>about Corinna but I don't like having this type of thing in the > > >>distribution. > > >> > > >>Corinna, you originally released this. Where did you find it? Did you > > >>just package it up directly from a BSD distribution? > > > > > >Reading /usr/doc/fortune-1.8/Notes and /usr/doc/fortune-1.8/README > > >would imply that limericks should be limericks-o (and rot13'd). Then > > >it will only be actually accessed if you use fortune -a or fortune -o. > > > > > >I'd be willing to maintain it, but haven't maintained a package before > > >or even read the information about how to, so it would take me a little > > >bit to release a new version. > > > > > >I too would be interested in knowing where the package came from. It > > >doesn't seem to say anywhere (except that the Notes and README have > > >NetBSD rcs tags). > > > > FWIW, it's in the FreeBSD CVS repository: > > > > cvs -d :ext:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/ncvs co src/games/fortune > > > > may check this out. I don't know for sure since I haven't updated this > > directory in a while. > > > > Maintaining this should not be hard. I suspect it may build OOTB. Thanks > > for considering it. > > Ok, I will maintain it and will get a release out in the next couple > days (one week at the outside). For the record, I will be changing > limerick (and gerrold.limerick, which is in the freebsd sources) to -o > files but continuing to install them. They will be installed rot13'd, > and fortunes won't come from them unless you specify you want > offensive fortunes on the command line. > > Feel free to let someone else do it if you'd prefer some other disposition > of the offensive stuff or want it dealt with sooner.
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.) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/