On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 01:41:37PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 01:13:49PM +0100, Stephen Stafford wrote: > > Okay, I can see that a lot of commands might be desirable here, but there > > are a LOT of these with VERY generic names. "ask", "fast", "rhyme", "cite", > > etc. > > > > The package seems to be effectively unusable at the moment (see bug #200164) > > and looks effectively unmaintained to me (no upload in over a year, and no > > buglog entries from the maintainer in that long that I can find.) > > > > So, the solutions I am considering are: > > > > 1: I hijack/adopt this package, clean it up, reduce the namespace pollution > > by making each command an argument to just ONE command, and generally > > making the package fit for use. > > I would greatly prefer that the surfraw commands be moved into some > other directory, like /usr/bin/surfraw (by analogy with /usr/bin/mh), > which I can add to my $PATH. I've grown very used to typing 'google'. > Hi Colin, That's a solution that hadn't occured to me, but I quite like it. Jeff Bailey at debcamp tells me he has an NMU to fix #200164, so with this out of the way, I'll probably take the package if nobody else does. If there is someone (*anyone*) with more time than I have who wants this package, then please step forward...I'm more than happy to sponsor uploads if that somebody doesn't have an account... Cheers, Stephen
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