Package: bsdmainutils
Version: 6.1.10
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch

I'm embarassed that Samuel Morse birthday is not in the calendar.  Geek cards
should be revoked!  

See:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/google/5229160/Google-marks-Samuel-Morses-birthday-with-code-logo.html

Also Louis de Broglie's entry was out of order.  Patch is attached.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages bsdmainutils depends on:
ii  bsdutils                  1:2.13.1.1-1   Basic utilities from 4.4BSD-Lite
ii  debianutils               3.0.1          Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  libc6                     2.9-7          GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libncurses5               5.7+20090404-1 shared libraries for terminal hand

bsdmainutils recommends no packages.

Versions of packages bsdmainutils suggests:
ii  cpp                           4:4.3.3-3  The GNU C preprocessor (cpp)
pn  vacation                      <none>     (no description available)
ii  wamerican [wordlist]          6-3        American English dictionary words 
ii  whois                         4.7.33     an intelligent whois client

-- no debconf information
--- /usr/share/calendar/calendar.birthday       2007-11-20 02:35:06.000000000 
-0500
+++ /tmp/calendar.birthday.new  2009-04-27 17:12:34.000000000 -0400
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@
 04/15  Leonardo da Vinci born, 1452
 04/16  Charles (Charlie) Chaplin (Sir) born in London, 1889
 04/22  Kant born, 1724
-08/15  Louis Victor de Broglie born, 1892, physicist
+04/27  Samuel Morse born, 1791, the inventor of the single wire telegraph
 04/28  James Monroe born, 1758
 04/29  Jules Henri Poincare born, 1854, founder of topology
 04/29  William Randolph Hearst born in San Francisco, 1863
@@ -183,6 +183,7 @@
 08/12  Thomas Mann's Death, 1955
 08/13  Annie Oakley born, 1860
 08/13  Fidel Castro born, 1927
+08/15  Louis Victor de Broglie born, 1892, physicist
 08/17  Mae West born, 1892
 08/18  Meriwether Lewis born, 1927
 08/20  Leon Trotsky assassinated, 1940

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