Re: ITP: maniac -- let fortune display debian package descriptions
On Thursday 26 October 2000 02:20, Aaron Lehmann wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 05:02:08PM +0800, zhaoway wrote:
> > Package: wnpp
> > Severity: wishlist
> >
> > maniac will generate fortune datafiles from /var/lib/dpkg/available,
> > which records all available packages information on a debian gnu
> > system. the output is suitable for fortune to display on a random
> > basis. thus could hopefully ease the life of the package-seeking
> > maniacs. (and i know many of the freshmeat lovers belong to this
> > category!)
>
> Setting up maniac (1.0) ...
> Can't exec "/usr/bin/strfile": No such file or directory at
> /usr/lib/maniac/maniac line 16, <DPKGDATA> chunk 4982.
Maybe maniac should depend (not only recommend) on funtune-mod, since it
can't create the packages without it.
Daniel Migowski
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