Re: Bug#773611: Fwd: RFS: histring/1.1.1-1 [ITP] - general purpose highlighting tool
Hi mentors,
All fixes are done and a new package is uploaded. Please sponsor it.
The respective dsc file can be found at:
http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/h/histring/histring_1.1.1-1.dsc
Once again, here is the package information:
>> 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.,
>>
>> http://sfxpt.wordpress.com/2013/06/02/highlighting-strings-in-text-
output-with-histring/
>>
>> Once again, I am looking for a sponsor for my newly upgraded package
>> "histring". It's *lintian clean*, and without any build problems. Ref
>> http://mentors.debian.net/package/histring
>>
>> * Package name : histring
>> Version : 1.1.1-1
>> * URL : https://github.com/suntong001/histring
>> * License : GPL-2.0+
>> Section : utils
>>
>> It builds those binary packages:
>>
>> histring - highlight strings using ANSI terminal escape sequences
>> ...
Moreover, here are the issues that have been recently fixed:
> 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.
>
> * As far as I can see, you can fix "deprecated-configure-filename". All
> you would need to do is change the name of configure.in to configure.ac.
>
> * Unless you have a compelling reason, the priority of the package (in
> d/control) should be "optional", not "extra".
>
> * This isn't important, but it would be nice if you put the histring
> manpage outside of the Debian directory when you make your next upstream
> release. This way, other distros and people who build from source will
> also benefit from the manpage.
>
> * There are a few minor grammatical errors in histring --help:
> "useage" should be "usage"
> "your self" should be "yourself" "hilighting" should be
"highlighting"
>
> Good luck getting your package into Debian!
>
> Riley Baird
Please help!
Thanks!
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