Bug#845155: RFS: rmlint/2.4.4
Package: sponsorship-requests
Severity: normal
Hello.
I'm the developer of rmlint (https://github.com/sahib/rmlint), a file deduplication toolset.
It tries to be more useful (helps in actually deleting the found duplicate data),
faster (something between 5x and 30x) and better tested than the popular fdupes.
Additionally an optional GUI written in Python is included.
Since I'm not a Debian myself user myself, I have a hard time bringing the software
into Debian, although I know (from bug reports and IRC) that many users of Debian based distributions
compile it from source. I tried to persuade Axel Beckert (https://wiki.debian.org/XTaran) to sponsor
it, but he seems to a bit too busy. He did provide a basic packaging effort though, which can be found here:
https://github.com/sahib/rmlint/pull/180 (does not include the GUI, should be probably a separate package)
In short: I'm looking for a sponsor *and* maintainer (which do not need to be the same person).
Optimally the maintainer would be someone that uses rmlint from time to time.
The package already builds the cli and might only need minimal review.
Sorry if this is not the right place to ask - I'm just a bit desparate since most other distributions
already ship rmlint. It's not that there aren't any volunteers, most of them just fail on the relative high
hurdle to bring a package into Debian.
Best regards,
Chris Pahl
-- System Information (this is a VM, due to reportbug):
Debian Release: 8.4
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
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