Bug#208339: Other greeds

[Thomas Thurman]

FWIW, there have been a few other programs called "greed" that people 
have attempted to package for debian already.


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). 
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. See 
 
from .


There have also been attempts to package other "greed" programs, e.g.
, 
an ftp client. I don't know what happened to that in the end.


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


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Bug#208339: Other greeds

[Pierre Machard]

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 
>  
> from .
>
> There have also been attempts to package other "greed" programs, e.g.
> ,
>  
> 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,
-- 
Pierre Machard
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