Package: fortunes
Version: 1:1.99.1-7
Severity: wishlist
In honor of the late Terry Pratchett, who left this Discworld to meet his
friend Death yesterday, please find attached a patch adding some of Terry
Pratchett's best quotes.
The patch add these quotes to the several files: humorists, people and magic.
It would be great if you could add this to the Debian package
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=es_ES.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_ES.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages fortunes depends on:
ii fortunes-min 1:1.99.1-7
Versions of packages fortunes recommends:
ii fortune-mod 1:1.99.1-7
fortunes suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
diff -Nru fortune-mod-1.99.1.old/debian/patches/series fortune-mod-1.99.1/debian/patches/series
--- fortune-mod-1.99.1.old/debian/patches/series 2013-08-15 05:33:08.0 +0200
+++ fortune-mod-1.99.1/debian/patches/series 2015-03-13 22:30:04.395289967 +0100
@@ -24,3 +24,4 @@
lawyers.diff
politics.diff
off-wrong-man.diff
+terry-pratchett.diff
diff -Nru fortune-mod-1.99.1.old/debian/patches/terry-pratchett.diff fortune-mod-1.99.1/debian/patches/terry-pratchett.diff
--- fortune-mod-1.99.1.old/debian/patches/terry-pratchett.diff 1970-01-01 01:00:00.0 +0100
+++ fortune-mod-1.99.1/debian/patches/terry-pratchett.diff 2015-03-13 22:29:29.638910425 +0100
@@ -0,0 +1,207 @@
+Description: Add quotes from the late Terry Pratchett,
+Author: Javier Fernandez-Sanguino
+Last-Update: 2015-03-15
+
+--- a/datfiles/humorists
b/datfiles/humorists
+@@ -1030,3 +1030,147 @@
+
+ All: (laughter)
+ %
++The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it’s as though you always
++get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you
++the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues.
++ -- Terry Pratchett, "Moving Pictures"
++%
++Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
++ -- Terry Pratchett, "Hogfather"
++%
++I’d rather be a rising ape than a falling angel.
++ -- Terry Pratchett
++%
++It’s not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather
++you weren’t doing it.
++ -- Terry Pratchett
++%
++Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.
++ -- Terry Pratchett
++%
++Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere,
++but it tones up the muscles that can.
++ -- Terry Pratchett
++%
++The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the
++presence of those who think they’ve found it.
++ -- Terry Pratchett, "Monstrous Regiment"
++%
++There are times in life when people must know when not to let go. Balloons are
++designed to teach small children this.
++ -- Terry Pratchett
++%
++The entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b)
++eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks.
++ -- Terry Pratchett
++%
++If you don’t turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone
++else’s story.
++ -- Terry Pratchett, "The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents"
++%
++The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head.
++ -- Terry Pratchett
++%
++Goodness is about what you do. Not who you pray to.
++ -- Terry Pratchett, "Snuff"
++%
++I have no use for people who have learned the limits of the possible.
++ -- Terry Pratchett
++%
++A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only
++the other one snores
++ -- Terry Pratchett
++%
++Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it
++ -- Terry Pratchett
++%
++Give a man a fire and he's warm for the day. But set fire to him and he's warm
++for the rest of his life
++ -- Terry Pratchett
++%
++In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods. They have not forgotten this.
++ -- Terry Pratchett
++%
++The space between the young readers eyeballs and the printed page is a holy
++place and officialdom should trample all over it at their peril
++ -- Terry Pratchett
++%
++Dickens, as you know, never got round to starting his home page
++ -- Terry Pratchett
++%
++I once absent-mindedly ordered Three Mile Island dressing in a restaurant and,
++with great presence of mind, they brought Thousand Island Dressing and a bottle
++of chili sauce
++ -- Terry Pratchett
++%
++It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life
++ -- Terry Pratchett
++%
++Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.
++ -- Terry Pratchett
++%
++The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on
++coming along and trying to put things in it.
++ -- Terry Pratchett
++%
++Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.
++ -- Terry Pratchett
++%
++The pen is mightier
