I was looking at the new version of miscfiles, in the changelog, I noticed that the previous version (the one before this one)'s changelog entry read like this
miscfiles (1.1-6) unstable; urgency=low * Removed duplication of the GNU Manifesto. closes: BUG#29565 -- Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 02:18:23 -0600 I immediately thought of Emacs. I remembered that keypress C-h C-p would display the GNU-manifesto, so I thought the miscfiles changelog might be linked with the fact that Emacs can display the GNU Manifesto without miscfiles installed. But I was wrong, both include a copy of the manifesto, identical except the miscfiles version is compressed. $ ls -l /usr/share/misc/GNU-manifesto.gz /usr/share/emacs/20.3/etc/GNU -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 26334 Oct 4 1998 /usr/share/emacs/20.3/etc/GNU -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10459 May 14 21:56 /usr/share/misc/GNU-manifesto.gz $ zcat /usr/share/misc/GNU-manifesto.gz | diff /usr/share/emacs/20.3/etc/GNU - $ I was going to file a bug, but which package? emacs20 or miscfiles, neither is really at fault and there is no real solution. The only solution I can think of is moving the GNU-manifesto to its own package and have emacs20 depend on it, with a symlink, but it is only 27k, how many people want the GNU-manifesto installed, but neither emacs20 or miscfiles. Nobody is worrying about the loss of disk space either. So, I was going to file a bug against general, but then I noticed the other files in the /usr/share/emacs/20.3/etc/ For starters a copy of the GPL: $ diff COPYING /usr/doc/copyright/GPL 5c5 < 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA --- > 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA $ So that one is a bit odd, and could be fixed with a symlink, does that pass lintian? But have a look at some of the other files: CENSORSHIP Censoring my Software by Richard Stallman (thoughts on CDA) COOKIES Mrs Fields Cookies recipe (that one about paying $200 for it) COPYING The GNU General Public Licence (mentioned before) GNU The GNU Manifesto (mentioned above) HELLO This is a list of ways to say hello in various languages. INTERVIEW Richard Stallman discusses his public-domain (interview with byte) JOKES Some gnu jokes LINUX-GNU Linux and the GNU system LPF League for Programming Freedom MAILINGLISTS GNU Project Electronic Mailing Lists and gnUSENET Newsgroups MOTIVATION STUDIES FIND REWARD OFTEN NO MOTIVATOR (why non-free is bad) OTHER.EMACSES How is this Emacs different from all other Emacses SERVICE GNU Service Directory (Consultancy) WHY-FREE Why Software Should Not Have Owners by Richard Stallman celibacy.1 Joke man page in catman format condom.1 Joke man page in catman format (a bit offensive) copying.paper Why Software Should Be Free by Richard Stallman ctags.1 A .so link to etags.1 echo.msg The man page for GNU(1) echo phrased as an email emacs.1 The emacs manual in roff format emacstool.1 The emacstool manual in roff format etags.1 The etags manual in roff format foo.el I have no idea what this is future-bug Subject: M-x search-backward-in-time broken... (another joke) rgb.txt Similar, but not identical to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb.txt sex.6 Joke man page in catman format (quite offensive) spook.lines Words for `M-x spook' (look up NSA in the emacs manual) tasks.texi The GNU task list in texinfo format termcap.src A copy of the termcap database? yow.lines Zippy quotations (from comic books and strips by Bill Griffith) I mean no wonder emacs is big, /usr/share/emacs/20.3/etc/ takes 5Mb, although there are some other emacs docs there. Could any of these be compressed? or symlinked from /usr/doc/emacs20, where I would expect to find them. Well, really I would not. I halve think that sex.6, condom.1, and celibacy.1 are in funny-manpages, I would look in Contents-I386.gz but I lent my slink CD to somebody. Should the emacs20 package be split, with some of RMS' `ideas' moved to a gnu-philosophy package? What do we do with the GNU jokes? leave them there? All food for thought. Finally on a slightly serious note, sex(6) is quite explicit and some might find it offensive. We have fortune-off separate, so people can leave it uninstalled. I suppose the kernel source does include the word f*** a good few times. -- I consume, therefore I am
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