debian/0000755000000000000000000000000011665576011007176 5ustar debian/devil2dict0000755000000000000000000000575211233057763011165 0ustar #!/usr/bin/perl -w =head1 NAME devil2dict - preprocess The Devil's Dictionary for dictfmt(1) =head1 SYNOPSIS B [I... [I]] =head1 DESCRIPTION B converts the Internet Wiretap edition of The Devil's Dictionary to CIA World Factbook format suitable for input to L. If you specify I, output is directly piped into B. =head1 AUTHOR Matej Vela . In the public domain. =cut use strict; my $fmt_base = pop if @ARGV > 1; open STDOUT, '|-', 'dictfmt', '-c5', '--without-headword', # Necessary for multiple headwords. '--headword-separator', ', ', '-u', 'http://wiretap.area.com/Gopher/Library/Classic/devils.txt', '-s', 'The Devil\'s Dictionary (1881-1906)', $fmt_base or die "$0: can't open pipe to dictfmt: $!\n" if defined $fmt_base; # Entries with multiple headwords, listed explicitly because they all # use differing punctuation. my %multi = (BABE => 'BABE, BABY', CONFIDANT => 'CONFIDANT, CONFIDANTE', TZETZE => 'TZETZE FLY, TSETSE FLY', # LAUREL refers to LAUREATE with _Vide supra._ LAUREATE => 'LAUREATE, LAUREL'); # Hyperlinks, also listed explicitly due to a number of exceptions # (e.g. LUNARIAN in the entry for EXECUTIVE). my %link = (ACADEME => '{ACADEME}', HUSBAND => '{HUSBAND}', EPITAPH => '{EPITAPH}', LAUREATE => '{LAUREATE}', _Molecule_ => '{MOLECULE}', LOGIC => '{LOGIC}'); my $check = 0; my $blank = 0; while (<>) { # Expect headwords only after blank lines and lines beginning with # whitespace (cf. MEERSCHAUM). This fixes several false positives # (for example, "II., De Clem._, ..."). if (/^\s/) { $check = 1; # Leave blank lines for later. $blank++, next if /^$/; # Strip letter headings, and the decoration at the end; no # point in having them in the previous entry. next if /^\s+(?:[A-Z]|-\)\(-)$/; } elsif ($check) { $check = 0; # Check for headwords. Characteristic examples: # # I is the first letter of ... # R.I.P. A careless abbrev... (dot included!) # HABEAS CORPUS. A writ by... (dot left out!) # # The /g flag updates pos() for the hyperlink code below. if (/^([A-Z]+\b(?:\.[A-Z.]+|[- \'A-Z]+[A-Z])?)/g) { $blank = 0; print "\n_____\n\n", exists $multi{$1} ? $multi{$1} : $1, "\n"; } } # Restore blank lines within entries. $blank--, print "\n" while $blank; # Search for hyperlinks; candidates are upper-case words and # underscored text. s///g would look nicer, but it would # substitute headwords as well because it starts from the # beginning rather than the current pos(). while (/([A-Z]{2,}|_.+?_)/g) { pos = $-[0] + length(substr($_, $-[0], $+[0] - $-[0]) = $link{$1}) if exists $link{$1}; } print; } print "\n"; close STDOUT or die "$0: can't close pipe to dictfmt: $!\n" if defined $fmt_base; debian/postinst0000644000000000000000000000030611233057763011002 0ustar #! /bin/sh set -e if [ "$1" = "configure" ]; then if [ -x /usr/sbin/dictdconfig ]; then dictdconfig -w ;fi if [ -x /etc/init.d/dictd ]; then invoke-rc.d dictd restart ;fi fi #DEBHELPER# debian/compat0000644000000000000000000000000211233057763010373 0ustar 7 debian/watch0000644000000000000000000000034411233057763010227 0ustar # There will likely never be new upstream versions of the # Devil's Dictionary, its author passed away in 1914. # Unless someone finds an electronic copy of the # Enlarged Devil's Dictionary, that could replace the current one. debian/postrm0000644000000000000000000000030211233057763010437 0ustar #! /bin/sh set -e if [ "$1" = "remove" ]; then if [ -x /usr/sbin/dictdconfig ]; then dictdconfig -w ;fi if [ -x /etc/init.d/dictd ]; then invoke-rc.d dictd restart; fi fi #DEBHELPER# debian/rules0000755000000000000000000000021511654202260010242 0ustar #! /usr/bin/make -f %: dh $@ override_dh_auto_build: chmod a+x debian/devil2dict debian/devil2dict devils.txt devil dictzip devil.dict debian/copyright0000644000000000000000000000207511234554343011131 0ustar This is the Debian GNU/Linux prepackaged version of The Devil's Dictionary by Ambose Bierce, for use by The DICT Development Group's client sever software. This package was originally constructed by Robert D. Hilliard from sources obtained from http://wiretap.area.com/Gopher/Library/Classic/devils.txt. It is currently maintained by Sven Joachim . Matej Vela contributed a script to preprocess the dictionary to a format suitable for dictfmt. Copyright: The Devil's Dictionary is in the public domain, its copyright has expired. It is distributed with the following header: The Internet Wiretap 1st Online Edition of THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY by AMBROSE BIERCE Copyright 1911 by Albert and Charles Boni, Inc. A Public Domain Text, Copyright Expired Released April 15 1993 Entered by Aloysius of &tSftDotIotE aloysius@west.darkside.com debian/control0000644000000000000000000000125111665461620010577 0ustar Source: dict-devil Section: text Priority: optional Maintainer: Sven Joachim Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7.0.50~) Build-Depends-Indep: dictfmt, dictzip Standards-Version: 3.9.2 Vcs-Browser: http://git.debian.org/?p=users/joachim-guest/dict-devil.git Vcs-Git: git://git.debian.org/users/joachim-guest/dict-devil.git Package: dict-devil Architecture: all Description: "The Devil's Dictionary" by Ambrose Bierce This package contains The Devil's Dictionary, a satirical, cynical and irreverent dictionary of common words, formatted for use by the dictionary server in the dictd package. Depends: dictd | dict-server, ${misc:Depends} Provides: dictd-dictionary debian/source/0000755000000000000000000000000011327327323010471 5ustar debian/source/patch-header0000644000000000000000000000040611327327265012746 0ustar Description: Various typos have been fixed For detailed changes see the Debian git repository, e.g. visit http://git.debian.org/?p=users/joachim-guest/dict-devil.git;a=history;f=devils.txt in your favorite web browser. Author: Sven Joachim debian/source/format0000644000000000000000000000001411302324304011664 0ustar 3.0 (quilt) debian/source/options0000644000000000000000000000002411327322703012100 0ustar single-debian-patch debian/changelog0000644000000000000000000001134711665463572011065 0ustar dict-devil (1.0-12) unstable; urgency=low * Convert to format 3.0 (quilt), using the single-debian-patch option. * Switch to dh tiny rules file. * Add ${misc:Depends} to the Depends field. * Fix description-synopsis-starts-with-article Lintian warning. * Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.2, no changes needed. -- Sven Joachim Wed, 30 Nov 2011 18:27:22 +0100 dict-devil (1.0-11) unstable; urgency=low * New maintainer (Closes: #436116). * Fix typos in the dictionary (Closes: #283796, 314607, #458207). Incorporate further corrections from the Project Gutenberg version. * Redo debian/rules from scratch using debhelper commands. * Bump Standards-Version to 3.8.2, no changes needed. * Clean up maintainer scripts: - Don't restart dictd when dict-devil is purged. * Don't mention copyright and license of the dict software in debian/copyright anymore. * debian/control: - Remove alternate build-dependency on ancient dicd version, add debhelper build-dependency. - Slightly reword the long description, don't mention that the dictionary is in 7-bit ascii. - Remove duplicate Section and Priority fields. - Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git fields. -- Sven Joachim Wed, 29 Jul 2009 08:50:11 +0200 dict-devil (1.0-10) unstable; urgency=medium * QA Upload. * Make debian/devil2dict executable to get some content into the binary package (Closes: #498829). -- Sven Joachim Sat, 13 Sep 2008 18:17:27 +0200 dict-devil (1.0-9) unstable; urgency=low * QA Upload + change maintainer to QA group * Call invoke-rc.d instead of init script directly in maintainer scripts. Closes: #275792 * Provide dictd-dictionary. Closes: #466206 -- Frank Lichtenheld Thu, 24 Apr 2008 04:13:38 +0200 dict-devil (1.0-8) unstable; urgency=low * Edited devils.txt: under LAUREL s/_vide supra_/LAUREATE/ (vide supra is not appropraite when only one entry is displayed by dict). The following correct typos in the original: under FRYING-PAN s/broiling in/broiling is/ under I s/clearer the/clearer to the/ under K s/pums/puns/ under PRE-ADAMITE s/race of antedated/race that antedated/ under RICE-WATER s/fat which/fat witch/ * Used modified devil2dict from Matej Vela instead of my sedscript for pre-processing devils.txt. This indexes multi-word, hyphenated, and apostrophized headwords. Closes: #222494. This includes the fix provided by Grant Hollingworth in Bug #221190. Closes: #221190. Thanks, Grant and Matej, -- Bob Hilliard Fri, 26 Dec 2003 17:52:12 -0500 dict-devil (1.0-7) unstable; urgency=low * Corrected format of Build-Depends-Indep: Closes: #218707 -- Bob Hilliard Sun, 02 Nov 2003 12:04:21 -0500 dict-devil (1.0-6) unstable; urgency=low * Fixed typo in entry for woman - s/Greeland/Greenland/ - Closes: #204618 (At first I thought this might be deliberate - Bierce was fond of invented proper names and fanciful expressions, and this line contains three apparent typos. I obtained a hard-copy of the Devil's Dictionary, and verified that this was a typo in the e-text.) (All copies of the Devil's Dictionary that I could find on line are based n the same e-test as this package.) -- Bob Hilliard Sun, 21 Sep 2003 15:48:30 -0400 dict-devil (1.0-5) unstable; urgency=low * There are no substantive changes from 1.0-5 that would be visible to the user. * Removed /usr/doc/symlinks. * removed workaround for dictfmt bug that has ben fixed (duplicated last index entry). -- Bob Hilliard Mon, 12 May 2003 16:06:18 -0400 dict-devil (1.0-4) unstable; urgency=low * There are no substantive changes from 1.0-3 that would be visible to the user. * Corrected spelling in Suggests: -- Bob Hilliard Thu, 21 Feb 2002 14:21:33 -0500 dict-devil (1.0-3) unstable; urgency=low * There are no substantive changes from 1.8-2 that would be visible to the user. * Added dictd to Build-Depends-Indep. -- Bob Hilliard Wed, 20 Feb 2002 18:13:18 -0500 dict-devil (1.0-2) unstable; urgency=low * Added Build-Depends-Indep -- Bob Hilliard Mon, 1 Jan 2001 18:03:00 -0500 dict-devil (1.0-1) unstable; urgency=low * Downloaded devils/txt from http://wiretap.area.com/Gopher/ Library/Classic/devils.txt * Prepared debian/rules to build the package using /usr/bin/.dictfmt, and wrote necessary debian files. There is no upstream changelog * Closes :#79995 -- Bob Hilliard Mon, 1 Jan 2001 17:16:14 -0500 debian/dict-devil.install0000644000000000000000000000007211233057763012610 0ustar devil.dict.dz usr/share/dictd devil.index usr/share/dictd debian/clean0000644000000000000000000000003211233057763010175 0ustar devil.dict.dz devil.index debian/patches/0000755000000000000000000000000011665575750010636 5ustar debian/patches/debian-changes0000644000000000000000000003436211665576027013417 0ustar Description: Various typos have been fixed For detailed changes see the Debian git repository, e.g. visit http://git.debian.org/?p=users/joachim-guest/dict-devil.git;a=history;f=devils.txt in your favorite web browser. Author: Sven Joachim --- dict-devil-1.0.orig/devils.txt +++ dict-devil-1.0/devils.txt @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ of possible charges of plagiarism, which resuming his own the author hopes to be held guiltless by those to whom the work is addressed -- enlightened souls who prefer dry wines to sweet, sense to sentiment, wit to humor and clean English to slang. - A conspicuous, and it is hope not unpleasant, feature of the book + A conspicuous, and it is hoped not unpleasant, feature of the book is its abundant illustrative quotations from eminent poets, chief of whom is that learned and ingenius cleric, Father Gassalasca Jape, S.J., whose lines bear his initials. To Father Jape's kindly @@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ ABRACADABRA. And his eyes uncommonly bright. Philosophers gathered from far and near - To sit at his feat and hear and hear, + To sit at his feet and hear and hear, Though he never was heard To utter a word But "_Abracadabra, abracadab_, @@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ affairs of others. Said a man to a crapulent youth: "I thought You a total abstainer, my son." - "So I am, so I am," said the scrapgrace caught -- + "So I am, so I am," said the scapegrace caught -- "But not, sir, a bigoted one." G.J. @@ -3030,7 +3030,7 @@ HEAD-MONEY, n. A capitation tax, or pol HEARSE, n. Death's baby-carriage. HEART, n. An automatic, muscular blood-pump. Figuratively, this -useful organ is said to be the esat of emotions and sentiments -- a +useful organ is said to be the seat of emotions and sentiments -- a very pretty fancy which, however, is nothing but a survival of a once universal belief. It is now known that the sentiments and emotions reside in the stomach, being evolved from food by chemical action of @@ -3225,7 +3225,7 @@ soul. By that good lady the Houris are esteem. HOUSE, n. A hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, -mouse, beelte, cockroach, fly, mosquito, flea, bacillus and microbe. +mouse, beetle, cockroach, fly, mosquito, flea, bacillus and microbe. _House of Correction_, a place of reward for political and personal service, and for the detention of offenders and appropriations. _House of God_, a building with a steeple and a mortgage on it. @@ -3300,7 +3300,7 @@ HYPOCHONDRIASIS, n. Depression of one's Bogul S. Purvy HYPOCRITE, n. One who, profession virtues that he does not respect -secures the advantage of seeming to be what he depises. +secures the advantage of seeming to be what he despises. I @@ -3310,7 +3310,7 @@ I is the first letter of the alphabet, t the first thought of the mind, the first object of affection. In grammar it is a pronoun of the first person and singular number. Its plural is said to be _We_, but how there can be more than one myself -is doubtless clearer the grammarians than it is to the author of this +is doubtless clearer to the grammarians than it is to the author of this incomparable dictionary. Conception of two myselfs is difficult, but fine. The frank yet graceful use of "I" distinguishes a good writer from a bad; the latter carries it with the manner of a thief trying to @@ -3436,7 +3436,7 @@ IMMORTALITY, n. G.J. IMPALE, v.t. In popular usage to pierce with any weapon which remains -fixed in the wound. This, however, is inaccurate; to imaple is, +fixed in the wound. This, however, is inaccurate; to impale is, properly, to put to death by thrusting an upright sharp stake into the body, the victim being left in a sitting position. This was a common mode of punishment among many of the nations of antiquity, and is @@ -3681,7 +3681,7 @@ INFANCY, n. The period of our lives whe afterward. INFERIAE,n. [Latin] Among the Greeks and Romans, sacrifices for -propitation of the _Dii Manes_, or souls of the dead heroes; for the +propitiation of the _Dii Manes_, or souls of the dead heroes; for the pious ancients could not invent enough gods to satisfy their spiritual needs, and had to have a number of makeshift deities, or, as a sailor might say, jury-gods, which they made out of the most unpromising @@ -4073,7 +4073,7 @@ antiquary, its later was adopted as a si touching -- means of keeping the calamity ever in the national memory. It is not known if the name of the letter was altered as an additional mnemonic, or if the name was always _Klatch_ and the destruction one -of nature's pums. As each theory seems probable enough, I see no +of nature's puns. As each theory seems probable enough, I see no objection to believing both -- and Dr. Snedeker arrayed himself on that side of the question. @@ -4364,7 +4364,7 @@ chronicle as if it were a statue. Let t mark a good word as "obsolete" or "obsolescent" and few men thereafter venture to use it, whatever their need of it and however desirable its restoration to favor -- whereby the process of -improverishment is accelerated and speech decays. On the contrary, +impoverishment is accelerated and speech decays. On the contrary, recognizing the truth that language must grow by innovation if it grow at all, makes new words and uses the old in an unfamiliar sense, has no following and is tartly reminded that "it isn't in the dictionary" @@ -4521,7 +4521,7 @@ denied the reward of success. Alas! we cannot know if this is true, For reading Milton's wit we perish too. -LOGANIMITY, n. The disposition to endure injury with meek forbearance +LONGANIMITY, n. The disposition to endure injury with meek forbearance while maturing a plan of revenge. LONGEVITY, n. Uncommon extension of the fear of death. @@ -4561,7 +4561,7 @@ his tongue when you wish to talk. LORD, n. In American society, an English tourist above the state of a costermonger, as, lord 'Aberdasher, Lord Hartisan and so forth. The traveling Briton of lesser degree is addressed as "Sir," as, Sir 'Arry -Donkiboi, or 'Amstead 'Eath. The word "Lord" is sometimes used, also, +Donkiboi, of 'Amstead 'Eath. The word "Lord" is sometimes used, also, as a title of the Supreme Being; but this is thought to be rather flattery than true reverence. @@ -4861,7 +4861,7 @@ MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be. His chief occupation is extermination of other animals and his own species, which, however, multiplies with such insistent rapidity as to -infest the whole habitable earh and Canada. +infest the whole habitable earth and Canada. When the world was young and Man was new, And everything was pleasant, @@ -5079,7 +5079,7 @@ _Molecule_.) According to Leibnitz, as be understood, the monad has body without bulk, and mind without manifestation -- Leibnitz knows him by the innate power of considering. He has founded upon him a theory of the universe, which -the creature bears without resentment, for the monad is a gentlmean. +the creature bears without resentment, for the monad is a gentleman. Small as he is, the monad contains all the powers and possibilities needful to his evolution into a German philosopher of the first class -- altogether a very capable little fellow. He is not to be @@ -5172,7 +5172,7 @@ MULATTO, n. A child of two races, asham MULTITUDE, n. A crowd; the source of political wisdom and virtue. In a republic, the object of the statesman's adoration. "In a multitude -of consellors there is wisdom," saith the proverb. If many men of +of counsellors there is wisdom," saith the proverb. If many men of equal individual wisdom are wiser than any one of them, it must be that they acquire the excess of wisdom by the mere act of getting together. Whence comes it? Obviously from nowhere -- as well say @@ -5912,7 +5912,7 @@ POLITICS, n. A strife of interests masq principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. POLITICIAN, n. An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the -superstructure of organized society is reared. When we wriggles he +superstructure of organized society is reared. When he wriggles he mistakes the agitation of his tail for the trembling of the edifice. As compared with the statesman, he suffers the disadvantage of being alive. @@ -5973,7 +5973,7 @@ PRAY, v. To ask that the laws of the un of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy. PRE-ADAMITE, n. One of an experimental and apparently unsatisfactory -race of antedated Creation and lived under conditions not easily +race that antedated Creation and lived under conditions not easily conceived. Melsius believed them to have inhabited "the Void" and to have been something intermediate between fishes and birds. Little its known of them beyond the fact that they supplied Cain with a wife and @@ -6128,7 +6128,7 @@ illustrious Jo. Miller cast a reproachfu answered, absently: "When it is ajar," and threw himself from a high promontory into the sea. Thus perished in his pride the most famous humorist of antiquity, leaving to mankind a heritage of woe! No -successor worthy of the title has appeared, though Mr. Edward bok, of +successor worthy of the title has appeared, though Mr. Edward Bok, of _The Ladies' Home Journal_, is much respected for the purity and sweetness of his personal character. @@ -6316,7 +6316,7 @@ RADIUM, n. A mineral that gives off hea that a scientist is a fool with. RAILROAD, n. The chief of many mechanical devices enabling us to get -away from where we are to wher we are no better off. For this purpose +away from where we are to where we are no better off. For this purpose the railroad is held in highest favor by the optimist, for it permits him to make the transit with great expedition. @@ -6328,7 +6328,7 @@ White House in Washington are Theo-Doric the Dorians. They are exceedingly fine and cost one hundred dollars a brick. -REALISM, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seem by toads. The +REALISM, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seen by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story written by a measuring-worm. @@ -6590,7 +6590,7 @@ to enable the Executive to determine whe been done by the prosecuting attorney. Any break in the continuity of a disagreeable expectation. - Altgeld upon his incandescend bed + Altgeld upon his incandescent bed Lay, an attendant demon at his head. "O cruel cook, pray grant me some relief -- @@ -6721,7 +6721,7 @@ founder of the Fastidiotic School. RICE-WATER, n. A mystic beverage secretly used by our most popular novelists and poets to regulate the imagination and narcotize the conscience. It is said to be rich in both obtundite and lethargine, -and is brewed in a midnight fog by a fat which of the Dismal Swamp. +and is brewed in a midnight fog by a fat witch of the Dismal Swamp. RICH, adj. Holding in trust and subject to an accounting the property of the indolent, the incompetent, the unthrifty, the envious and the @@ -7601,7 +7601,7 @@ mule, barkeeper: it smells." Missouri. But if he doesn't mind, you shouldn't." In the course of human events Mr. Clark went out, and there, apparently, lay the incinerated and shrunken remains of his charger. -The boys idd not have any fun out of Mr. Clarke, who looked at the +The boys did not have any fun out of Mr. Clarke, who looked at the body and, with the non-committal expression to which he owes so much of his political preferment, went away. But walking home late that night he saw his mule standing silent and solemn by the wayside in the @@ -7924,7 +7924,7 @@ been greatly dignified. TOPE, v. To tipple, booze, swill, soak, guzzle, lush, bib, or swig. In the individual, toping is regarded with disesteem, but toping nations are in the forefront of civilization and power. When pitted -against the hard-drinking Christians the absemious Mahometans go down +against the hard-drinking Christians the abstemious Mahometans go down like grass before the scythe. In India one hundred thousand beef- eating and brandy-and-soda guzzling Britons hold in subjection two hundred and fifty million vegetarian abstainers of the same Aryan @@ -8074,7 +8074,7 @@ TRINITY, n. In the multiplex theism of three entirely distinct deities consistent with only one. Subordinate deities of the polytheistic faith, such as devils and angels, are not dowered with the power of combination, and must urge individually -their clames to adoration and propitiation. The Trinity is one of the +their claims to adoration and propitiation. The Trinity is one of the most sublime mysteries of our holy religion. In rejecting it because it is incomprehensible, Unitarians betray their inadequate sense of theological fundamentals. In religion we believe only what we do not @@ -8337,7 +8337,7 @@ are accessible to suasion by the rude fo And I saw the Chief Forecaster, dead as any one can be -- Dead and damned and shut in Hades as a liar from his birth, With a record of unreason seldom paralleled on earth. - While I looked he reared him solemnly, that incadescent youth, + While I looked he reared him solemnly, that incandescent youth, From the coals that he'd preferred to the advantages of truth. He cast his eyes about him and above him; then he wrote On a slab of thin asbestos what I venture here to quote -- @@ -8446,7 +8446,7 @@ WOMAN, n. deny the virtue and declare that such as creation's dawn beheld, it roareth now. The species is the most widely distributed of all beasts of prey, infesting all habitable parts of the globe, from - Greeland's spicy mountains to India's moral strand. The popular + Greenland's spicy mountains to India's moral strand. The popular name (wolfman) is incorrect, for the creature is of the cat kind. The woman is lithe and graceful in its movement, especially the American variety (_felis pugnans_), is omnivorous and can be debian/patches/series0000644000000000000000000000001711665462137012043 0ustar debian-changes