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

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