Package: fortune-mod
Version: 1:1.99.1-3
Severity: minor
The fortune man page states:
This fortune also supports the BSD method of appending ``-o'' to
database names to specify offensive fortunes.
[...]
This feature is not only for backwards-compatibility,
but also to allow users to distinguish between inoffensive and
offensive databases of the same name.
[...]
For example, assuming there is a database named definitions in both
the inoffensive and potentially offensive collections, then the
following command will select an inoffensive definition 90% of the
time, and a potentially offensive definition for the remaining 10%:
fortune 90% definitions definitions-o
But the fortune command doesn't work that way. Instead of appending `-o'
one has to prepend `off/', so the command above will work as
fortune 90% definitions off/definitions
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Versions of packages fortune-mod depends on:
ii fortunes [fortune-cookie-db 1:1.99.1-3 Data files containing fortune cook
ii fortunes-bofh-excuses [fort 1.2-1 BOFH excuses for fortune
ii fortunes-de [fortune-cookie 0.21-2 German data files for fortune
ii fortunes-debian-hints [fort 1.7 Debian Hints for fortune
ii fortunes-es [fortune-cookie 1.25 Spanish fortune database
ii fortunes-es-off [fortune-co 1.25 Spanish fortune cookies (Offensive
ii fortunes-min [fortune-cooki 1:1.99.1-3 Data files containing fortune cook
ii fortunes-off [fortune-cooki 1:1.99.1-3 Data files containing offensive fo
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii librecode0 3.6-12 Shared library on which recode is
fortune-mod recommends no packages.
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