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Re: Bug#632450: ITP: pmatch -- Duplicate finder and removal tool.



Tomasz Muras:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Tomasz Muras <nexor1984@gmail.com>
> 
> 
> * Package name    : pmatch
>   Version         : 0.4.0
>   Upstream Author : Tomasz Muras <nexor1984@gmail.com>
> * URL             : http://pmatch.rubyforge.org
> * License         : GPL v3
>   Programming Lang: Ruby
>   Description     : Duplicate finder and removal tool.
> 
> Perfect Match (pmatch) is a command-line utility for finding duplicate
> files. It can perform some logic for choosing which duplicate to act on
> (delete, create a link or perform any other action).

Hi,

we already got the packages fdupes, rdfind, fslint, perforate for this 
purpose.[1] And there's a tool called duff[2], not yet packaged for Debian. I 
don't think we need another tool for this. And I don't think such basic tools 
should be written in a scripting language.

[1] found by axi-cache search duplicate files
[2] http://duff.sourceforge.net/

Thank you however for your initiative to contribute to Debian! If you have any 
questions, please just ask.

Best regards,

Thomas Koch, http://www.koch.ro


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