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Re: Debian 2.0: Checklist automated



On Thu, 15 Jan 1998 bhmit1@mail.wm.edu wrote:

> Hello everyone!
> 
> If you missed the previous messages on the subject, the checklist are just
> to give the testers and idea of what to look out for and what to do after
> installing your package to make sure it works.  Scripts are also welcome
> if a list describing what is does is included.  I've automated it, so
> things should move quicker on my end now.
> 
> For checklist examples, see http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/deb .  I place the
> ones with a list at the top.
> 
> Ok, for now I'll just keep the request for a checklist to people with
> required packages, but all list are welcome.  (Non-maintainer or even
> non-developer submissions are also welcome.)
> 
> Roll call:
> 
<snip>
> 
> P.S. Any sed expert who can think of how to change the e-mail addresses
> into mailto links with a sed command (or any command) could do me a huge
> favor by sharing your wisdom.  See http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/deb and view
> one of the html sources.

Umm, if you put e-mail addresses like

Guy Maor <maor@debian.org>

literally in the html source, the part between the <> will be ignored by
Netscape because it will think it is a tag it doesn't know about.

If all address are of the form

Real Name <e-mail.address@hostname.somewhere>

then you could use this script:

#!/bin/sh
TEMPFILE=$(tempfile)
cat - > $TEMPFILE
A_NAME=$(sed -e 's/ <.*$//' < $TEMPFILE)
A_ADDRESS=$(sed -e 's/^.*<//' -e 's/>.*$//' < $TEMPFILE)
rm $TEMPFILE
echo "<A HREF=mailto:$A_ADDRESS>$A_NAME</A>"

This takes the name and e-mail address in the format above and echoes the
proper html tags to stdout, like this:

$ echo 'Guy Maor <maor@debian.org>' | ./whatever-the-script-is-called
<A HREF=mailto:maor@debian.org>Guy Maor</A>
$ 

Assumptions I made about the format:  The name comes first, optionally
quoted. Then comes a space, a `<', the e-mail address and a `>'. Anything
after the `>' will be ignored.

Remco





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