Bug#849338: ITP: hxtools -- Collection of tools and scripts

[Jochen Sprickerhof <jspricke@debian.org>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Jochen Sprickerhof <jspricke@debian.org>

* Package name    : hxtools
  Version         : 20150304
  Upstream Author : Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
* URL             : http://inai.de/projects/hxtools/
* License         : GPL, LGPL, WTFPL
  Programming Lang: C, Perl, Bash
  Description     : Collection of tools and scripts

 A collection of tools and scripts that have accumulated over the years, and
 each of which seems to be too small to warrants its own project.
 .
  * bsvplay(1) - convert BASICA music files to PCM
  * cctypeinfo(1) - show sizes of C types on the implementation it was compiled with
  * checkbrack(1) - check parenthesis and bracket count
  * cwdiff(1) - run wdiff with color
  * declone(1) - break hardlinks
  * diff2php(1) - transform patch to self-serving PHP file
  * doxygen-kerneldoc-filter(1) - filter for Doxygen to support kerneldoc
  * extract_d3pkg(1) - extract Descent3 PKG files
  * extract_dxhog(1) - extract Descent HOG files
  * extract_f3pod(1) - extract Fury3 POD files
  * extract_qupak(1) - extract Quake2 PACK files
  * fd0ssh(1) - pipe for password-over-stdin support to ssh
  * fduphl(1) - find duplicate files and hardlink them
  * filenameconv(1) - convert file name encoding
  * flv2avi(1) - repackage Flash video into an AVI container with PCM audio
  * fnt2bdf(1) - convert VGA raw fonts to X11 BDF
  * fxterm(1) - start xterm with sane settings
  * git-author-stat(1) - show commit author statistics of a git repository
  * git-blame-stat(1) - show per-line author statistics of a git repository
  * git-export-patch(1) - produce perfect patch from git commits for mail submission
  * git-forest(1) - display the commit history forest
  * git-lemon(1) - don't just pick cherries, but take it all (cherry-pick a commit range)
  * git-new-root(1) - start a new root in the git history
  * git-revert-stats(1) - show reverting statistics of a git repository
  * git-track(1) - set up branch for tracking a remote
  * gpsh(1) - grep in tracklists and play audio files
  * graph-fanout(1) - fan a tree (for graphviz)
  * graph-lchain(1) - remove circles in graphs using longest-chaining method
  * logontime(8) - show cumulative logon time from wtmp
  * mailsplit(1) - split an mbox into single files
  * man2html(1) - convert nroff manpages to HTML
  * mod2ogg(1) - wrapper for module to OggVorbis transcoding
  * mpg2ogg(1) - wrapper for mass mp3 to OggVorbis transcoding
  * netload(8) - show utilization of network interface
  * newns(8) - clone current filesystem namespace and start a process
  * ofl(1) - open file lister (replaces fuser and lsof -m)
  * omixer(1) - volume control using the OSS Sound API
  * oplay(1) - raw PCM playback using the OSS Sound API
  * orec(1) - raw PCM recording using the OSS Sound API
  * paddrspacesize(1) - print size of processes' address spaces
  * pesubst(1) - perl-regexp stream substitution (replaces sed for sub-stitutions)
  * pmap_dirty(1) - display amount of RAM a process uses hard
  * png2wx.pl(1) - transform arbitrary files into C++ files for wxWidgets
  * printcaps(1) - print currently active process capabilities
  * proc_iomem_count(1) - show MMIO region sizes
  * proc_stat_signal(1) - decode /proc/self/stat for signal status
  * pshtreads(1) - alternative experiment to ps(1) involving thread display
  * qplay(1) - convert QBASIC play strings to PCM
  * qtar(1) - faster interface to tar with file ordering
  * raregetty(8) - local login program for remote hosts
  * recursive_lower(1) - recursively lowercase all filenames
  * rpmdep.pl(1) - read RPM dependencies and output a graph
  * sourcefuncsize(1) - statistical analysis of code
  * spec-beautifier(1) - program to clean up RPM .spec files
  * stxdb(1) - A/V file database
  * su1(8) - what sudo should have done
  * sysinfo(1) - print IRC-style system information banner
  * tailhex(1) - hex dumper with tail-following support
  * utmp_register(1) - make entries in the utmp/wtmp database
  * vcsaview(8) - display a screen dump in VCSA format
  * vfontas(1) - VGA font file assembler
  * wavdiff(1) - proof-of-concept raw PCM deltifier
  * wktimer(1) - work timer
  * xcp(1) - proof-of-concept cp(1) with alternate copying mechanisms
  * xfs_irecover(1) - recover lost inodes from XFS filesystems.

This package is used by the libpam-mount package (currently patched in).
I've created an initial version on collab-maint:

https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/hxtools.git