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Bug#648569: marked as done (ITA: 4digits -- number-guessing game aka "Bulls and Cows")

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has caused the Debian Bug report #648569,
regarding ITA: 4digits -- number-guessing game aka "Bulls and Cows"
to be marked as done.

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Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

The package 4digits was orphaned and removed from Debian in 2008:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=479098

But, the upstream developer has continued working on it, and recently
submitted it to Ubuntu's Application Review Board. Rather than making
this an Ubuntu-only package, it seems to make sense to adopt the package
upstream in Debian.

As mentioned in the Debian bug, 4digits is not superseded by
gnome-mastermind, it's a different game. A much older game, in fact, (by
a century or more) which may have inspired the creation of Mastermind.
See, the wikipedia page, which singles out this particular developer's
work as the example implementation:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulls_and_cows

I've imported the old packaging into a git repository and updated it for
the new 1.0 release and for DEP-5 and other current best practices. This
work is in a temporary github repo:

https://github.com/allisonrandal/pkg-4digits

And, I've also submitted an updated package to mentors.debian.net:

http://mentors.debian.net/package/4digits

I'll be mentoring the developer in how to maintain his debian/ packaging
files.

Allison

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--- Begin Message --- I am the upstream developer of 4digits, and I now maintain the debian package.

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