Re: Intro and Seeking Sponsor

[Daniele Nicolodi <daniele@grinta.net>]

On 25-06-2019 08:40, swiftgist@gmail.com wrote:
>   I have written a simple command line utility in Rust that I hope may be
> useful to others.  The repo is https://github.com/swiftgist/diskspace.  I
> am releasing a minimal debian package currently and need a sponsor.

Hello Eric,

I may be missing something, but what does you utility do that is not
handled by 'du -h | sort -h | tail -n 20' ?

One of the criteria for software to enter Debian is it being generally
useful and balance the added functionality with the inevitable resources
that will be required to keep a package in the archive.  In this case,
unless I am missing something, your utility does not offer any function
that cannot be readily obtained combining standard utilities already in
Debian.  This is also a balance in discoverability: anyone familiar with
an Unix command line would find the above solution more quickly reading
the relevant man pages, than searching the archive for a package doing
the same.  Additionally, because of the flat hierarchy of the binaries
in $PATH, I think that any command line utility with a two characters
name is very likely to incur in a name collision.

Cheers,
Dan