Re: Bug#773611: Fwd: RFS: histring/1.1.1-1 [ITP] - general purpose highlighting tool
On 21/12/14 19:58, Cameron Norman wrote:
> El sáb, 20 de dic 2014 a las 11:30 , Riley Baird
> <BM-2cVqnDuYbAU5do2DfJTrN7ZbAJ246S4Xix@bitmessage.ch> escribió:
>> On 21/12/14 07:02, Tong Sun wrote:
>>> Package: sponsorship-requests
>>> Severity: wishlist
>>>
>>> Dear mentors,
>>>
>>> Please sponsor for my newly uploaded package "histring".
>>>
>>> It's a general purpose highlighting tool that works with arbitrary
>>> input text file (e.g. all sorts of log files), and highlight different
>>> keywords in different colours (e.g., warnings and errors are
>>> highlighted with different colours). You can use this single small
>>> tool to replace all kinds of special purpose log parsing tools, and it
>>> can do much more, like highlighting results from vcsdiff, etc. E.g.,
>>>
>>
>> Hi! I'm not a DD, so I can't sponsor your package, but here are some
>> things that I've noticed:
>>
>> * It may be a good idea to make releases as tarballs still, instead of
>> just making Debian releases, so that other distros can benefit as well.
>
> Alternatively, he/she can tag the releases in git.
True, that would also work. (Although it has the disadvantage that it
makes it difficult to automatically check for new releases using things
like watch files.)
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