Bug#150551: ITP: wmcoincoin -- Stupid dockapp for browsing DaCode sites news and board

2002-06-22 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Fri, 2002-06-21 at 18:55, Joseph Carter wrote: [...] another containing a few gigabytes of porn, I, for one, would like to state that this could be a very useful package, particularly if the package is of ... good proportions ;-) Now back to your regularly scheduled flamefest!

Bug#150551: ITP: wmcoincoin -- Stupid dockapp for browsing DaCode sites news and board

2002-06-22 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le sam 22/06/2002 à 00:30, Joseph Carter a écrit : And this has what exactly to do with wmcoincoin though? We're talking about a self-described stupid dockapp whose primary feature seems to be the added convenience of one-click trolling on a particular website. The thing is someone's idea

Bug#150551: ITP: wmcoincoin -- Stupid dockapp for browsing DaCode sites news and board

2002-06-22 Thread Joseph Carter
On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 02:07:44PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: All the features having stupid names doesn't mean they are useful. The troll-o-meter and the plopificator really improve your chatting comfort, and you won't find an IRC client having such features. You'd be surprised what I've

Bug#150551: ITP: wmcoincoin -- Stupid dockapp for browsing DaCode sites news and board

2002-06-22 Thread Romain FRANCOISE
Josselin Mouette writes: This is the key point - a tool designed for trolling with a very small audience. I don't really think the package fits into Debian. Why do you think it has such a small audience ? WMcoincoin is already used by 10-15 % of the linuxfr.org regular users, which has

Bug#150551: ITP: wmcoincoin -- Stupid dockapp for browsing DaCode sites news and board

2002-06-22 Thread Julien BLACHE
Romain FRANCOISE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why do you think it has such a small audience ? WMcoincoin is already used by 10-15 % of the linuxfr.org regular users, which has nothing to do with the 30 users of your estimations. It was my estimation. Where did you get your statistics? Here

Bug#150551: ITP: wmcoincoin -- Stupid dockapp for browsing DaCode sites news and board

2002-06-21 Thread Aaron Isotton
Joseph Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 01:15:16AM +0200, Aaron Isotton wrote: I care. I suspect everyone who has to download the Packages.gz for sid on a slow link probably has a vested interest in removing the stupid and all but totally unused crap people

Bug#150551: ITP: wmcoincoin -- Stupid dockapp for browsing DaCode sites news and board

2002-06-21 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Thu, 2002-06-20 at 20:43, Joseph Carter wrote: bzip2 was packaged because someone thought it would be a useful thing to have in Debian. You have greatly misunderstood the person you are replying to. He suggested that Packages.bz2 would help (instead of Packages.gz). So, here are stats from

Bug#150551: ITP: wmcoincoin -- Stupid dockapp for browsing DaCode sites news and board

2002-06-21 Thread Joseph Carter
On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 07:46:35AM -0400, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: bzip2 was packaged because someone thought it would be a useful thing to have in Debian. You have greatly misunderstood the person you are replying to. He suggested that Packages.bz2 would help (instead of Packages.gz).

Bug#150551: ITP: wmcoincoin -- Stupid dockapp for browsing DaCode sites news and board

2002-06-21 Thread Joseph Carter
On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 02:36:12PM +0200, Aaron Isotton wrote: It's not about censorship (why the hell do people always insist on making any objection to a package an argument about censorship anyway?) It *is* about censorship. What you are saying is remove the packages which *I* don't

Bug#150551: ITP: wmcoincoin -- Stupid dockapp for browsing DaCode sites news and board

2002-06-21 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Fri, 2002-06-21 at 18:30, Joseph Carter wrote: And this has what exactly to do with wmcoincoin though? Absolutely nothing. However, it does have something to do with the larger discussion of what to do about bloated packages files. The thing is someone's idea of a joke, and while I'm sure

Bug#150551: ITP: wmcoincoin -- Stupid dockapp for browsing DaCode sites news and board

2002-06-21 Thread Joseph Carter
On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 09:08:52PM -0400, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: The thing is someone's idea of a joke, and while I'm sure users of that website think it's rather amusing, the rest of the world doesn't see the humour. There is plenty of precedent for this... [..] I'm sure there

Bug#150551: ITP: wmcoincoin -- Stupid dockapp for browsing DaCode sites news and board

2002-06-20 Thread Josselin Mouette
Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2002-06-20 Severity: wishlist * Package name: wmcoincoin Version : 2.3.8b Upstream Author : Julien Pommier [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://hules.free.fr/wmcoincoin/ * License : GPL v2 Description : Stupid dockapp for

Bug#150551: ITP: wmcoincoin -- Stupid dockapp for browsing DaCode sites news and board

2002-06-20 Thread Julien BLACHE
Josselin Mouette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Description : Stupid dockapp for browsing DaCode sites news and board WMCoinCoin allows you to browse linuxfr.org, and any other site based on DaCode 1.2+. Warning: it is currently only in French ! I don't see the point in having this software

Bug#150551: ITP: wmcoincoin -- Stupid dockapp for browsing DaCode sites news and board

2002-06-20 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeu 20/06/2002 à 17:53, Julien BLACHE a écrit : WMCoinCoin allows you to browse linuxfr.org, and any other site based on DaCode 1.2+. Warning: it is currently only in French ! I don't see the point in having this software included in Debian. The interest of wmcoincoin is _very_

Bug#150551: ITP: wmcoincoin -- Stupid dockapp for browsing DaCode sites news and board

2002-06-20 Thread Julien BLACHE
Josselin Mouette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The interest of wmcoincoin is _very_ limited outside of the linuxfr.org users community, not to say inexistent. It's sort of a private joke, and nothing more... I wouldn't say that. WMcoincoin is full of features unuseful to many people, but it

Bug#150551: ITP: wmcoincoin -- Stupid dockapp for browsing DaCode sites news and board

2002-06-20 Thread Romain FRANCOISE
Julien BLACHE writes: I don't see the point in having this software included in Debian. I'll second that. As the description says, it's just a stupid dockapp and the user base doesn't exceed 30 people, I think. Packaging this is a waste of time. DaCode doesn't seem to be very used (compared

Bug#150551: ITP: wmcoincoin -- Stupid dockapp for browsing DaCode sites news and board

2002-06-20 Thread Samuel Hocevar
On Thu, Jun 20, 2002, Romain FRANCOISE wrote: I don't see the point in having this software included in Debian. I'll second that. As the description says, it's just a stupid dockapp and the user base doesn't exceed 30 people, I think. Packaging this is a waste of time. So what? This is

Bug#150551: ITP: wmcoincoin -- Stupid dockapp for browsing DaCode sites news and board

2002-06-20 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeu 20/06/2002 à 18:38, Romain FRANCOISE a écrit : I'll second that. As the description says, it's just a stupid dockapp and the user base doesn't exceed 30 people, I think. Packaging this is a waste of time. Stop trolling. There are hundreds of packages in the archive that have less users

Bug#150551: ITP: wmcoincoin -- Stupid dockapp for browsing DaCode sites news and board

2002-06-20 Thread Aaron Isotton
Joseph Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I care. I suspect everyone who has to download the Packages.gz for sid on a slow link probably has a vested interest in removing the stupid and all but totally unused crap people throw in the archive, not adding more to it. I appreciate the variety.

Bug#150551: ITP: wmcoincoin -- Stupid dockapp for browsing DaCode sites news and board

2002-06-20 Thread Joseph Carter
On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 01:15:16AM +0200, Aaron Isotton wrote: I care. I suspect everyone who has to download the Packages.gz for sid on a slow link probably has a vested interest in removing the stupid and all but totally unused crap people throw in the archive, not adding more to it.