Hi,
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 05:28:05PM -0400, Thomas Thurman wrote:
> FWIW, there have been a few other programs called "greed" that people
> have attempted to package for debian already.
There are no reference in the WNPP database.
> One of these is an emacs-based RGTP client, which never made it into
> Debian (unfortunately: I'd have liked to have seen it in the Project).
In that case why don't you fill a RFP.
> Despite this, several people including me use the software installed
> from its .deb, which does use the name "greed". That may cause a bit of
> confusion for its users.
Before packaging this games I made a apt-cache and I did not recieve any
answer. I did not see any RFP related to greed.
> See
> <http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~owend/free/greed_1.3.0a_all.deb>
> from <http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~owend/free/GREED.html>.
>
> There have also been attempts to package other "greed" programs, e.g.
> <http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/1999/debian-devel-199904/msg01568.html>,
> an ftp client. I don't know what happened to that in the end.
Nothing.
> Maybe it would be good to change the name of this package to something
> like "greed-game"?
No. Because, I am not supposed to know every code name that exists on
the internet.
Greed is in the section Games, its description explain that it's a game.
What about more controversial games like nethack ?
Cheers,
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Pierre Machard
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