Debian Bug report logs - #247520
fortunes: thinko-typo in definitions

Package: fortunes; Maintainer for fortunes is Andrea Colangelo <warp10@ubuntu.com>; Source for fortunes is src:fortune-mod (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: "Jim W. Jaszewski" <grok@sprint.ca>

Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 16:48:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 9708-36

Fixed in version fortune-mod/1:1.99.1-4

Done: Nicolas Boulenguez <nicolas.boulenguez@free.fr>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Report forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org, Pascal Hakim <pasc@debian.org>:
Bug#247520; Package fortunes. (full text, mbox, link).

Acknowledgement sent to "Jim W. Jaszewski" <grok@sprint.ca>:
New Bug report received and forwarded. Copy sent to Pascal Hakim <pasc@debian.org>. (full text, mbox, link).

Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

Package: fortunes
Version: 9708-36
Severity: normal


I let so many get by... (sigh)
This one I decided to hook and land;

In /usr/share/games/fortunes/definitions[.u8]:

	%
	Mencken and Nathan's Sixteenth Law of The Average American:
  	      Milking a cow is an operation demanding a special talent that <<<
    	    is possessed only by yokels, and no person born in a large city can
      	  never hope to acquire it.
					^^

should be:

	%
	Mencken and Nathan's Sixteenth Law of The Average American:
  	      Milking a cow is an operation demanding a special talent which <<<
    	    is possessed only by yokels, and no person born in a large city can
      	  ever hope to acquire it.
					^

NB: "that/which" may be debatable to some (but not to an english professor
    I'll bet); however "never/ever" is clearly bad grammar  --  y'all...
;>

Tags added: pending Request was from Pascal Hakim <pasc@redellipse.net> to control@bugs.debian.org. (full text, mbox, link).

Tags added: pending Request was from Joshua Kwan <joshk@triplehelix.org> to control@bugs.debian.org. (full text, mbox, link).

Marked as fixed in versions 1.99.1-4. Request was from Nicolas Boulenguez <nicolas.boulenguez@free.fr> to control@bugs.debian.org. (Sat, 07 Jul 2012 17:06:05 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

Marked Bug as done Request was from Nicolas Boulenguez <nicolas.boulenguez@free.fr> to control@bugs.debian.org. (Sat, 07 Jul 2012 17:06:05 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

Notification sent to "Jim W. Jaszewski" <grok@sprint.ca>:
Bug acknowledged by developer. (Sat, 07 Jul 2012 17:06:06 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

Message sent on to "Jim W. Jaszewski" <grok@sprint.ca>:
Bug#247520. (Sat, 07 Jul 2012 17:06:07 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

Message #18 received at 247520-submitter@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

close 247520 1.99.1-4
thanks
-- 
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.

Reply sent to Nicolas Boulenguez <nicolas.boulenguez@free.fr>:
You have taken responsibility. (Sat, 07 Jul 2012 17:09:10 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

Notification sent to "Jim W. Jaszewski" <grok@sprint.ca>:
Bug acknowledged by developer. (Sat, 07 Jul 2012 17:09:10 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

Message #23 received at 247520-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

Package: fortunes
Version: 1.99.1-4

It seems that the patch has been applied. If I am wrong, answer to
247520@bugs.debian.org and CC me.

No longer marked as fixed in versions 1.99.1-4. Request was from Andreas Beckmann <anbe@debian.org> to control@bugs.debian.org. (Fri, 01 Nov 2013 01:21:17 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

Marked as fixed in versions fortune-mod/1:1.99.1-4. Request was from Andreas Beckmann <anbe@debian.org> to control@bugs.debian.org. (Fri, 01 Nov 2013 01:21:17 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

Bug archived. Request was from Debbugs Internal Request <owner@bugs.debian.org> to internal_control@bugs.debian.org. (Fri, 29 Nov 2013 07:29:43 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

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Debian Bug report logs - #247520 fortunes: thinko-typo in definitions

Debian Bug report logs - #247520
fortunes: thinko-typo in definitions