Re: [ANN] Preliminary debian source package of fortune-mod-2.14.0
Hi Juhani,
On Mon, 24 Feb 2020 09:30:41 +0200
Juhani Numminen <juhaninumminen0@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Shlomi Fish kirjoitti 23.2.2020 klo 19.38:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > see https://salsa.debian.org/shlomif-guest/fortune-mod which packages
> > https://github.com/shlomif/fortune-mod of which I am the upstream.
> >
> > Currently the git history is a mess and lintian is unhappy, but the package
> > finally builds using gbp!
> >
> > Merge requests and comments are welcome.
> >
>
> Do you want to become the maintainer of this package in Debian? If so,
> you may want to follow the guide for package salvaging.
> https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.en.html#package-salvaging
>
I may have to resort to becoming its maintainer. So I'll take a look at your
link.
> There are some patches in the bug tracker:
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=888961#10
> However, patch 0001 removes "Provides: fortune" which I would like to
> keep. It makes "apt install fortune" work as opposed to being forced to
> ask "apt install fortune-mod".
>
Thanks! I'll take a look.
> --
> Juhani
>
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