Package: fortunes Version: 1:1.99.1-7 Severity: wishlist In honor of the late Terry Pratchett, who left this Discworld to meet his friend Death yesterday, please find attached a patch adding some of Terry Pratchett's best quotes.
The patch add these quotes to the several files: humorists, people and magic. It would be great if you could add this to the Debian package -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=es_ES.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_ES.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages fortunes depends on: ii fortunes-min 1:1.99.1-7 Versions of packages fortunes recommends: ii fortune-mod 1:1.99.1-7 fortunes suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
diff -Nru fortune-mod-1.99.1.old/debian/patches/series fortune-mod-1.99.1/debian/patches/series --- fortune-mod-1.99.1.old/debian/patches/series 2013-08-15 05:33:08.000000000 +0200 +++ fortune-mod-1.99.1/debian/patches/series 2015-03-13 22:30:04.395289967 +0100 @@ -24,3 +24,4 @@ lawyers.diff politics.diff off-wrong-man.diff +terry-pratchett.diff diff -Nru fortune-mod-1.99.1.old/debian/patches/terry-pratchett.diff fortune-mod-1.99.1/debian/patches/terry-pratchett.diff --- fortune-mod-1.99.1.old/debian/patches/terry-pratchett.diff 1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100 +++ fortune-mod-1.99.1/debian/patches/terry-pratchett.diff 2015-03-13 22:29:29.638910425 +0100 @@ -0,0 +1,207 @@ +Description: Add quotes from the late Terry Pratchett, +Author: Javier Fernandez-Sanguino <[email protected]> +Last-Update: 2015-03-15 + +--- a/datfiles/humorists ++++ b/datfiles/humorists +@@ -1030,3 +1030,147 @@ + + All: (laughter) + % ++The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it’s as though you always ++get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you ++the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues. ++ -- Terry Pratchett, "Moving Pictures" ++% ++Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time. ++ -- Terry Pratchett, "Hogfather" ++% ++I’d rather be a rising ape than a falling angel. ++ -- Terry Pratchett ++% ++It’s not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather ++you weren’t doing it. ++ -- Terry Pratchett ++% ++Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one. ++ -- Terry Pratchett ++% ++Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, ++but it tones up the muscles that can. ++ -- Terry Pratchett ++% ++The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the ++presence of those who think they’ve found it. ++ -- Terry Pratchett, "Monstrous Regiment" ++% ++There are times in life when people must know when not to let go. Balloons are ++designed to teach small children this. ++ -- Terry Pratchett ++% ++The entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) ++eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks. ++ -- Terry Pratchett ++% ++If you don’t turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone ++else’s story. ++ -- Terry Pratchett, "The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents" ++% ++The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head. ++ -- Terry Pratchett ++% ++Goodness is about what you do. Not who you pray to. ++ -- Terry Pratchett, "Snuff" ++% ++I have no use for people who have learned the limits of the possible. ++ -- Terry Pratchett ++% ++A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only ++the other one snores ++ -- Terry Pratchett ++% ++Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it ++ -- Terry Pratchett ++% ++Give a man a fire and he's warm for the day. But set fire to him and he's warm ++for the rest of his life ++ -- Terry Pratchett ++% ++In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods. They have not forgotten this. ++ -- Terry Pratchett ++% ++The space between the young readers eyeballs and the printed page is a holy ++place and officialdom should trample all over it at their peril ++ -- Terry Pratchett ++% ++Dickens, as you know, never got round to starting his home page ++ -- Terry Pratchett ++% ++I once absent-mindedly ordered Three Mile Island dressing in a restaurant and, ++with great presence of mind, they brought Thousand Island Dressing and a bottle ++of chili sauce ++ -- Terry Pratchett ++% ++It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life ++ -- Terry Pratchett ++% ++Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages. ++ -- Terry Pratchett ++% ++The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on ++coming along and trying to put things in it. ++ -- Terry Pratchett ++% ++Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces. ++ -- Terry Pratchett ++% ++The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is ++very sharp. ++ -- Terry Pratchett ++% ++Most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused not by people ++being fundamentally good or fundamentally evil, but by people being ++fundamentally people. ++ -- Terry Pratchett ++% ++It is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what ++you're attempting can't be done. ++ -- Terry Pratchett ++% ++Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know, that in a universe so full ++of wonders, they have managed to invent boredom. ++ -- Terry Pratchett ++% ++Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a ++large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World ++Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry ++ -- Terry Pratchett ++% ++Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom. ++ -- Terry Pratchett ++% ++It’s not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you ++weren’t doing it. ++ -- Terry Pratchett ++% ++People don't alter history any more than birds alter the sky, they just make ++brief patterns in it. ++ -- Terry Pratchett ++% ++Here’s some advice boy. Don’t put your trust in revolutions. They always come ++around again. That's why they’re called revolutions. ++ -- Terry Pratchett ++% ++Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things. ++ -- Terry Pratchett ++% ++Inside every sane person there’s a madman struggling to get out. ++ -- Terry Pratchett ++% ++Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out til too late ++that he's been playing with two queens all along. ++ -- Terry Pratchett ++% ++Pets are always a help in times of stress. And in times of starvation, too, ++o'course. ++ -- Terry Pratchett ++% ++The intelligence of that creature known as a crowd is the square root of the ++number of people in it. ++ -- Terry Pratchett ++% ++Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you. ++ -- Terry Pratchett ++% +--- a/datfiles/magic ++++ b/datfiles/magic +@@ -192,3 +192,6 @@ + to be seen again. + -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr., "Between Time and Timbuktu" + % ++It’s still magic even if you know how it’s done. ++ -- Terry Pratchett, "A Hat Full of Sky" ++% +--- a/datfiles/education ++++ b/datfiles/education +@@ -950,3 +950,22 @@ + % + Your education begins where what is called your education is over. + % ++They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance. ++ -- Terry Pratchett ++% ++Personally, I think the best motto for an educational establishment is: 'Or ++Would You Rather Be a Mule?' ++ -- Terry Pratchett ++% ++I didn't go to university. Didn't even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for ++those who did ++ -- Terry Pratchett ++% ++"Educational" refers to the process, not the object. Although, come to think of ++it, some of my teachers could easily have been replaced by a cheeseburger ++ -- Terry Pratchett ++% ++An education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you ++unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on ++ -- Terry Pratchett ++% +--- a/datfiles/people ++++ b/datfiles/people +@@ -4348,4 +4348,15 @@ + % + I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one + year.... It's very character-building +- -- Steve Jobs (1955-2011) ++ -- Steve Jobs (1955-2011) ++% ++It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is ++true, it's called Life ++ -- Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) ++% ++I commend my soul to any God that can find it. ++ -- Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) ++% ++So much universe, and so little time. ++ -- Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) ++%
