Re: dopewars do we need such a game in debian distribution?

2008-02-27 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Christof Adams said: Hallo Francois, I am a long time user of debian. In the updating process i found the programm dopewars you maintain. As a user i much apreciate the work of volunteers like you in the packing and handling of the debian software

Re: dopewars do we need such a game in debian distribution?

2008-02-27 Thread Dossy Shiobara
On 2008.02.27, Stephen Gran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think it is useful to remember that many people have different thresholds for what they find offensive or funny. Similar to non-free, perhaps Debian needs to have its packages moved to drug-free, leaving packages like dopewars behind? :-).

Re: dopewars do we need such a game in debian distribution?

2008-02-27 Thread Nico Golde
Hi Stephen, * Stephen Gran [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-02-27 16:40]: This one time, at band camp, Christof Adams said: I am a long time user of debian. In the updating process i found the programm dopewars you maintain. As a user i much apreciate the work of volunteers like you in the

Re: dopewars do we need such a game in debian distribution?

2008-02-27 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 11:00:27AM -0500, Dossy Shiobara wrote: On 2008.02.27, Stephen Gran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think it is useful to remember that many people have different thresholds for what they find offensive or funny. Similar to non-free, perhaps Debian needs to have its

Re: dopewars do we need such a game in debian distribution?

2008-02-27 Thread Christian Surchi
On mer, 2008-02-27 at 15:00 +0100, Christof Adams wrote: Hallo Francois, I am a long time user of debian. In the updating process i found the programm dopewars you maintain. As a user i much apreciate the work of volunteers like you in the packing and handling of the debian

Re: dopewars do we need such a game in debian distribution?

2008-02-27 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Nico Golde said: At least w3bfukk0r was not allowed to get into the archive because of its offensive name and hot-babe also never made its way into the archive. You mean they were actually rejected by the ftp-master's, or you mean the discussion convinced the

Re: dopewars do we need such a game in debian distribution?

2008-02-27 Thread Julien Cristau
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 18:13:12 +, Stephen Gran wrote: This one time, at band camp, Nico Golde said: At least w3bfukk0r was not allowed to get into the archive because of its offensive name and hot-babe also never made its way into the archive. You mean they were actually

Re: dopewars do we need such a game in debian distribution?

2008-02-27 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 27 février 2008 à 15:00 +0100, Christof Adams a écrit : Please think over it and remove this package and others with comparable content. You might find other packages which deserve your time better. I agree. We should for example remove bible-kjv, which contains shocking texts

Re: dopewars do we need such a game in debian distribution?

2008-02-27 Thread Nico Golde
Hi Julien, * Julien Cristau [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-02-27 19:30]: On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 18:13:12 +, Stephen Gran wrote: This one time, at band camp, Nico Golde said: At least w3bfukk0r was not allowed to get into the archive because of its offensive name and hot-babe also never

Re: dopewars do we need such a game in debian distribution?

2008-02-27 Thread Francois Marier
Hi Christof, You have a good point: dopewars, despite being fun to a lot of people, is not exactly a family-friendly game. I suggest you look at this Debian sub-project if you are looking for a child-safe distribution: http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-jr/ Francois -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: dopewars do we need such a game in debian distribution?

2008-02-27 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 27 February 2008, Francois Marier wrote: You have a good point: dopewars, despite being fun to a lot of people, is not exactly a family-friendly game. I suggest you look at this Debian sub-project if you are looking for a child-safe distribution:

Re: alinuxworld.com is linking to debian products

2008-02-27 Thread Noah Slater
Hello, It's a shame your website talks so much of Linux and not GNU/Linux. Also, I may be mistaken but you have a BSD distro on that page. Best, -- Noah Slater http://bytesexual.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: dopewars do we need such a game in debian distribution?

2008-02-27 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 11:59:00AM -0500, Kevin Mark a écrit : Debian has various packages that contain potentially offensive matter like the fortune packages. Debian also has a subproject for children Actually, custom debian distributions (subprojects) have exactly the same content as Debian,

Re: dopewars do we need such a game in debian distribution?

2008-02-27 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 27 Feb 2008, Frans Pop wrote: /me always semi-enjoys the fact that suggestions like the one that started the thread always end up making people aware of a game they did not before knew existed. Would be interesting to compare the popcon scores for the game for this month and next