Debian Bug report logs - #780438
fortunes: Please add quotes from Terry Pratchett

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From: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <jfs@debian.org>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: fortunes: Please add quotes from Terry Pratchett

Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2015 22:32:00 +0100

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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.

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Message #10 received at 780438@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "Bernhard M. Wiedemann" <bernhardout2@lsmod.de>

To: 780438@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: fortunes: Please add quotes from Terry Pratchett

Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2015 18:29:44 +0100

On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 22:32:00 +0100
=?utf-8?q?Javier_Fern=C3=A1ndez-Sanguino_Pe=C3=B1a?= <jfs@debian.org> wrote:

> The patch add these quotes to the several files: humorists, people and magic. 

note, that the patch contains two dups which differ in line-wrapping:

It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die.
That is true, it's called Life

It’s not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much
rather you weren’t doing it.

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