Bug#1051717: split wtf(6) in a separate package?
Antoine Beaupre
anarcat at debian.org
Mon Sep 11 18:11:51 BST 2023
Package: bsdgames
Version: 2.17-29+b1
Severity: critical
I wonder if wtf(6) should be split in a separate package. It's a
genuinely useful package (as opposed to a "game") that I have only
discovered recently, even though I have been familiar with BSD games
for more than a few decades at this point (!).
It seems to be effectively maintained in its own fork right now, with
updates on the acronyms files maintained in debian/patches, which
... doesn't seem ideal.
void-linux seem to have their own git repo for this now:
https://github.com/void-linux/netbsd-wtf
... and it seems relatively up to date. It *looks* like the upstream
source is split between:
http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/share/misc/?only_with_tag=MAIN
and:
http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/games/wtf/?only_with_tag=MAIN
... so I'm not sure how we should handle that, but maybe converging
over the above git repo would be best?
Another upstream I found is:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/bsd-games/
... but i'm not sure how valid that actually is either.
Arch seems to be using this as an upstream now:
https://github.com/vattam/BSDGames
See:
https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/bsd-games/
... but that doesn't ship the wtf(6) program!
Anyway, just a thought!
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 12.1
APT prefers stable-security
APT policy: (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental'), (1, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-11-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=fr_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages bsdgames depends on:
ii libc6 2.36-9+deb12u1
ii libfl2 2.6.4-8.2
ii libgcc-s1 12.2.0-14
ii libncurses6 6.4-4
ii libstdc++6 12.2.0-14
ii libtinfo6 6.4-4
ii miscfiles [wordlist] 1.5+dfsg-4
ii wamerican-huge [wordlist] 2020.12.07-2
ii wfrench [wordlist] 1.2.7-2
bsdgames recommends no packages.
bsdgames suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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