RFS: arename
Dear mentors,
I am looking for a sponsor for my package "arename".
* Package name : arename
* Version : 1.6
* Upstream Author : Frank Terbeck <ft@bewatermyfriend.org>
* URL : http://ft.bewatermyfriend.org/comp/arename.html
* License : 2-clause BSD license
* Section : sound
It builds these binary packages:
arename - automatic audio file renaming
arename is a tool that is able to rename audio files by looking at a
file's tagging information, from which it will assemble a consistent
destination file name. The format of that filename is configurable for
the user by the use of template strings.
I suppose there is already similar software in Debian, I for one know
of lltag. Why do I want to add another one? I worked with some of
them, and only arename felt right ;) It supports Ogg Vorbis, MP3 and
FLAC. It's highly configurable, including hooks written in Perl.
The initial debianization was done by upstream for grml, I cleaned up
afterwards. I was told lintian does not like binaries like arename.pl,
so I added a patch from upstream to rename it all to arename. Upstream
will apply this patch to the 2.0 series. Waiting for the 2.0 series to
start packaging would not be feasible, as it's gonna take some time.
The package appears to be lintian clean.
The package can be found on mentors.debian.net:
- URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/a/arename
- Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main contrib non-free
- dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/a/arename/arename_1.6.dsc
The packaging is done in a Git repository, you can find it at
git://cloudconnected.org/packages/arename or view it with gitweb at
http://git.cloudconnected.org/?p=packages/arename;a=summary
Source packages are built by the bin/genpkg.sh script with the help of
gitpkg.
I also heard doing direct patches to the upstream source is not liked
and one should use quilt or dpatch. I think using Git for this task is
enough to keep track of the changes and also way easier. Advocates of
Git-based packaging (for example, Joey Hess) seem to do it this way.
I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me.
Kind regards,
Maximilian Gaß
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