On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 04:05:12PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: >On Tue, 2012-02-28 at 11:52 +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> Jonathan McCrohan wrote: >> >Package: wnpp >> >Severity: wishlist >> >Owner: Jonathan McCrohan <jmccro...@gmail.com> >> > >> >* Package name : nyancat >> > Version : 0.1 >> > Upstream Author : Kevin Lange <k...@dakko.us> >> >* URL : http://miku.acm.uiuc.edu/ >> >* License : NCSA >> > Programming Lang: C >> > Description : Terminal-based Pop Tart Cat animation >> > >> >Nyancat is an animated, color, ANSI-text telnet server that renders a loop >> >of >> >the classic Nyan Cat animation. Nyancat can also be run as a standalone >> >program >> >in a local terminal if telnet functionality is not required. >> >> And what value does this bring to Debian? > >Are such amusements only permitted as Easter eggs now? (apt-get moo?)
I've just done lots of QA work tracking down build failures while bootstrapping a new architecture, typically in pet packages that have gone largely unmaintained after a small number of uploads. That experience makes me leery of accepting yet more crap into Debian in the first place, especially joke-of-the-week stuff like this. nyancat will stay alive elsewhere on the net for anybody who cares, we don't need it. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com "I can't ever sleep on planes ... call it irrational if you like, but I'm afraid I'll miss my stop" -- Vivek Dasmohapatra -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120228162033.gb26...@einval.com
