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On 17-02-15 19:38:44, Mekeor Melire wrote:
> Am Wed, 15 Feb 2017 13:37:55 +0000
> schrieb ng0 <contact.ng0@cryptolab.net>:
> 
> > On 17-02-14 21:24:06, Caleb Herbert wrote:
> > > Could someone make a package for fortune?
> > >   
> > 
> > This looks like a very quick task (for me). Do you need help with
> > packaging this and want someones guidance? Otherwise I'd say you could
> > take other distros packages as inspiration/starting point. For example
> > archlinux: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/fortune-mod/
> 
> 
> The official repository isn't directly available anymore because http://www.redellipse.net/code/fortune is down.

Oh, so it wasn't just me.
 
> We could use this maintained repository of fortune-mod on GitHub:
> 	https://github.com/shlomif/fortune-mod

I'd prefer this github, or debian without patches applied.

> Or we could use the latest official release, hosted by Arch or Debian.
> 	https://sources.archlinux.org/other/fortune-mod/
> 	http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/f/fortune-mod/
> 
> It might also help to look into the Nix package definition, by the way:
> 	https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/tools/misc/fortune/default.nix
> 
> If nobody wants to do this, I could probably create a package for this next week.
> 

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