Hi,

On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 05:28:05PM -0400, Thomas Thurman wrote:
> FWIW, there have been a few other programs called "greed" that people 
> have attempted to package for debian already.

There are no reference in the WNPP database.

> One of these is an emacs-based RGTP client, which never made it into 
> Debian (unfortunately: I'd have liked to have seen it in the Project). 

In that case why don't you fill a RFP.

> Despite this, several people including me use the software installed 
> from its .deb, which does use the name "greed". That may cause a bit of 
> confusion for its users. 

Before packaging this games I made a apt-cache and I did not recieve any
answer. I did not see any RFP related to greed.


> See 
> <http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~owend/free/greed_1.3.0a_all.deb> 
> from <http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~owend/free/GREED.html>.
>
> There have also been attempts to package other "greed" programs, e.g.
> <http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/1999/debian-devel-199904/msg01568.html>,
>  
> an ftp client. I don't know what happened to that in the end.

Nothing.

> Maybe it would be good to change the name of this package to something 
> like "greed-game"?

No. Because, I am not supposed to know every code name that exists on
the internet. 

Greed is in the section Games, its description explain that it's a game. 

What about more controversial games like nethack ?

Cheers,
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                                Pierre Machard
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