Eduard Bloch wrote: >> * URL : http://dpkg-view.alioth.debian.org > > That's a 404 now. Waiting for alioth registration to complete. There is a temporary location: deb http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ packages/unstable/$(ARCH)/ deb http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ packages/unstable/all/ deb-src http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ packages/unstable/source/ but those are demo packages, not a project homepage. I was originally unsure whether or not dpkg-view should be native or upstream. It would have been at SF but I felt alioth was more suitable for a native package. Therefore, registration at alioth happened fairly late in the day. >> Description : View the contents of .deb packages without root access >> >> Simple read-only viewer of .deb package files for Gnome. >> Accepts package locations on the command line to support >> the 'open' command in various file managers, one window > > If this is a library, it should be declared as a library. It is not a library, it is a Gtk GUI. I'll amend the description. (... for Gtk/Gnome.). dpkg-view unpacks the .deb directly, (so it doesn't need to be installed), using libarchive. > If it just > some tool, how is it better than dpkd-deb, used trough less or Midnight > Commander? 1. I don't use MC. For those who want to use Nautilus, there is no GUI viewer. 2. It'll do more than 'less'. dpkg-view allows you to VIEW the contents of any text file within the package without unpacking to a file. That may be extended in future to other mime-types. 3. All the details of the .deb are available in the single window. I'll add something to the description for that too. A few more things need to be resolved in the demo before the code is ready for the first release which allows time for alioth to confirm hosting or find somewhere else. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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