Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: AJ Jordan <alex@strugee.net> * Package name : filter-other-days Version : 1.0.1 Upstream Author : AJ Jordan <alex@strugee.net> (me) * URL : https://github.com/strugee/filter-other-days * License : AGPL Programming Lang: POSIX sh Description : filter logfiles for today's date in an Artificial Ignorance-compatible way filter-other-days filters logfiles for today's date in an Artificial Ignorance-compatible way. That means it throws away entries that it's sure aren't from today, instead of filtering for entries it thinks are from today. This is done for security reasons; it's better to receive irrelevant information than it is to miss relevant information. Thus filter-other-days is useful as a part of a larger Artificial Ignorance setup if the administrator wants to e.g. get a daily report emailed to them. The package description above pretty much covers why I think this package is useful. The last time I sent this ITP my mail got sent to /dev/null due to a local misconfiguration; at the time I found at least one package in Debian that provided similar functionality, but that package provided a larger suite of tools to deal with logfiles whereas filter-other-days has a more limited purpose. Note that I would need a sponsor to get this into the archive as I am neither a DD nor a DM. I am, however, the upstream maintainer. I intend to maintain Debian packaging in tandem with the source code in the upstream repository and in fact already have packaging written which passes Lintian with no errors or warnings in pedantic mode. filter-other-days will run on any system with POSIX and GNU `seq`, which Debian fulfills handily even with nothing but essential installed. Cheers! AJ
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