Bug#1069729: bsdgames: Please keep quiz

[Kacper Gutowski]

Thanks!

-k

Bug#1069729: bsdgames: Please keep quiz

[Dr. Tobias Quathamer]

Am 23.04.24 um 21:42 schrieb Kacper Gutowski:

Dear Maintainer,

Recently quiz(6) was removed from the package.
I understand that the plan is to switch to a different fork linked in
changelog whose developers consider quiz(6) to be "just plain junk."
I can't say I understand that rationale, or why does it apply to quiz(6)
but not to arithmetic(6), for example. But seeing that pom(6) was
retained despite that fork disliking it, I would like to request
that quiz(6) is kept packaged as well. I find it useful.


Hi Kacper,

thanks for your bug report. I'll admit that the removal of all those 
programs has been a test to see if those programs are still in use. As 
long as I don't actually switch "upstream", I can revert all those 
removals quite easily.


So apparently, at least two programs are missed if I remove them. I've 
re-added quiz now as well, it'll get uploaded shortly.


Regards,
Tobias



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Bug#1069729: bsdgames: Please keep quiz

[Kacper Gutowski]

Package: bsdgames
Version: 2.17-33
Severity: wishlist

Dear Maintainer,

Recently quiz(6) was removed from the package.
I understand that the plan is to switch to a different fork linked in
changelog whose developers consider quiz(6) to be "just plain junk."
I can't say I understand that rationale, or why does it apply to quiz(6)
but not to arithmetic(6), for example. But seeing that pom(6) was
retained despite that fork disliking it, I would like to request
that quiz(6) is kept packaged as well. I find it useful.

-k

-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (700, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.5.0-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages bsdgames depends on:
ii  libc6  2.37-15
ii  libfl2 2.6.4-8.2+b2
ii  libgcc-s1  14-20240201-3
ii  libncurses66.4+20240414-1
ii  libstdc++6 14-20240201-3
ii  libtinfo6  6.4+20240414-1
ii  miscfiles [wordlist]   1.5+dfsg-5
ii  wamerican [wordlist]   2020.12.07-2
ii  wamerican-huge [wordlist]  2020.12.07-2
ii  wbritish [wordlist]2020.12.07-2
ii  wbritish-huge [wordlist]   2020.12.07-2
ii  wesperanto [wordlist]  3.7-2
ii  wfrench [wordlist] 1.2.7-2
ii  wpolish [wordlist] 20240101-1
ii  wspanish [wordlist]1.0.30
ii  wukrainian [wordlist]  1.8.0+dfsg-1

bsdgames recommends no packages.

Versions of packages bsdgames suggests:
pn  mailutils  

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