ITP advice please
Could I get advice on whether this is a suitable package?
The programs are written in the interpreted language rexx. Three
are to query search engines -- Debian, Geocrawler, Dejanews. They
run from the command line and show the hits in Lynx, sorted by
date. The other is nodeps which shows package dependencies.
Usage: searchdeb [-l list1 [list2]..] -p pattern
Examples:
searchdeb -l all -a -p 'sound modules;oss'
searchdeb -l policy -o on -p 'burned; out'
Usage: searchgeo [-l list1 [list2]..] -p pattern
Examples:
searchgeo -l all -p 'autoconf automake libtool'
searchgeo -l devel -p '"General Resolution"' :)
Usage:
searchdeja -d all|new|old -l eng|all -n nospam -p 'this & (that | other)'
Examples:
searchdeja -p 'perl & (smtm | "show me the money")'
searchdeja -d new -l eng -n nospam -p 'debian & non-free & resolution'
Usage: nodeps [-rs] [-q] [-p pkg] [-f [alternate_package_file]]
Examples:
nodeps -rsq - show packages that no others depend on/recommend/suggest
nodeps -rs - ditto, but with package descriptions
nodeps -rsp perl - show all installed packages that depend on perl
nodeps -rsp xlib6 -f /var/lib/dpkg/available
- show all packages in available that depend on xlib6
cat /var/state/apt/lists/*Packages |nodeps -rsp xlib6 -f
- ditto using all Packages files
I started nodeps because I was having trouble with pkg-nodep (in
pkg-order.deb). It was mostly done when the ITP for deborphan
was posted last week so I finished it. It's interesting to
compare the three languages.
My questions,
- worthy package?
- OK to bundle these? The common thread is they are all rexx
and most are to do with Debian.
- rexxscripts for the name? Currently the only thing in the
archive is something I wrote and a sponsor uploaded for me
but I'm hoping that will change. If it does, this probably
isn't a very good name.
The tarball is at
http://loki.dhs.org/~rick/downloads/rexxscripts.tar.gz
The search programs require rxsock from woody/devel. They aren't
fully debugged yet. No docs but -h or --help gives more complete
usage info.
Rick
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younie@home.com
http://loki.dhs.org/~rick
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