Bug#1063880: ITP: tmpwatch -- tmpwatch is a utility searches for files not accessed in a specific time and deletes them
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Peter Hyman <pete@peterhyman.com>
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
* Package name : tmpwatch
Version : 2.12
* Upstream Contact: Peter Hyman <pete@peterhyman.com>
URL : https://github.com/pete4abw/tmpwatch
* License : GPL
Programming Lang: C
Description : tmpwatch is a utility searches for files not accessed in a
specific time and deletes them
The tmpwatch utility recursively searches through specified directories and
removes files which have not been accessed in a specified period of time.
tmpwatch is normally used to clean up directories which are used for
temporarily holding files (for example, /tmp).
- While Debian removes files in the /tmp directory, other files may have
temporary files that needs to be cleaned periodically. tmpwatch is
ideally used
as a cron-job.
- how do you plan to maintain it?
tmpwatch has not had any activity for over 5 years. Originally written by
Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>, Preston Brown <pbrown@redhat.com>, Mike A.
Harris
<mharris@redhat.com>, Miloslav Trmač <mitr@redhat.com>, I have forked
off and
added some enhancements.
However, packaging for Debian has been challenging since the autogen I wrote
fetches a submodule which creates lots of files not in the source package. I
would need a mentor to help me get this off the ground.
Original project URL is at the Fedora project page:
https://pagure.io/tmpwatch
--
Peter Hyman
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