Re: Needa sponsor/advocate

[Peter S Galbraith <GalbraithP@dfo-mpo.gc.ca>]

David Caldwell wrote:

>                I packaged up a small program I wrote a while ago for my 
> first package:
> 
>  Package: eol
>  Version: 1.0.2-1
>  Section: text
>  Priority: optional
>  Architecture: i386
>  Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.3-7)
>  Installed-Size: 64
>  Maintainer: David Caldwell <david@porkrind.org>
>  Description: Translates text files between Mac, DOS, and Unix formats
>   'eol' contains 4 programs that help you deal with cross-platform text 
> files:
>     - tounix converts a text file into Unix format (eol=lf) from any format.
>     - tomac converts a text file into Macintosh format (eol=cr) from any 
> format.
>     - todos converts a text file into DOS format (eol=crlf) from any format.
>     - towin converts a text file into DOS format (eol=crlf) from any format.
> 
> It is available at:
> <ftp://ftp.indigita.com/other/david/eol/eol_1.0.2-1_i386.deb>

This will clash with an existing package:

$ dpkg -L sysutils | grep todos
/usr/bin/todos
/usr/share/man/man1/todos.1.gz

Peter