Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.5.2.0
Severity: wishlist
It is about time we recognize the truth. We have been constantly called as
the most elitist of the GNU/Linux distribuitons, and this is true.
So, I propose we make clear that we are indeed '1337 and rename the
debian/rules file to debian/rulez. Anyone who cannot see the benefits of
the added c00lness effect such a change would bring is not fit to be One Of
Us[TM].
The transition from the old to the new system can be easily performed by
including a test in dpkg-source, so that a debian/rules -> debian/rulez
symlink is added to the source deb if the debian/rules file is not present
and the debian/rulez file is. It should also automatically call the
atention of any lamerz that try to build a package without renaming the
rules file to rulez.
I also propose we add the following target to the standard debian/rulez
target list:
m00: should display an ASCII-art of a stoned cow, in deference of the s1kr3t
bovine powers behind the Debian packaging system, and the magic smoke of
Holy Cow that is portrayed in our logo.
-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux godzillah.rivendell.sol 2.2.19 #1 Thu Mar 29 19:31:38 BRT 2001
i586
Versions of packages debian-policy depends on:
ii fileutils 4.0.43-1 GNU file management utilities.
PS: If you took this email seriously, hit your head with a hammer and think
again. It was sent in the April fools day, after all. If you second this,
you're seriously deranged, and in severe need of either more coffee, or sleep.
--
"One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh
