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Re: Bug#661840: ITP: rfcdiff -- IETF Internet Draft Difference Tool



On Thursday, March 01, 2012 09:49:24 PM Thomas Koch wrote:
> Scott Kitterman:
> > Package: wnpp
> > Severity: wishlist
> > Owner: Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com>
> > 
> > 
> > * Package name    : rfcdiff
> > 
> >   Version         : 1.41
> >   Upstream Author : Henrik Levkowetz <henrik@levkowetz.com>
> > 
> > * URL             : http://tools.ietf.org/tools/rfcdiff/
> > * License         : GPL v2 or later
> > 
> >   Programming Lang: Bash and Python
> >   Description     : IETF Internet Draft Difference Tool
> >   Takes two RFCs or Internet-Drafts in text form as input, and
> >   produces output which indicates the differences found in one of
> >   various
> >   forms. In all cases, page headers and page footers are stripped
> >   before
> >   looking for changes.
> 
> Hi Scott,
> 
> I started to collect small tools related to standard documents that I might
> have time to package as a whole once:
> https://github.com/thkoch2001/Standard-Document-Tools
> 
> Would you like to include rfcdiff in that collection and maintain the whole
> package with me? There are other examples of such tool collection packages
> like emacs-goodies or devscripts.

This particular tool is only aimed at one narrow audience, people who are 
active in developing IETF standards.  I don't think it would fit in with other 
tools. 

Scott K

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