Bug#495677: RFP: heirloom-toolchest -- Old Unix-utilities modified for todays requirements
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
* Package name : heirloom-toolchest
* URL : http://heirloom.sourceforge.net/
* License : BSD and other
Programming Lang: C
Description : Old Unix-utilities modified for todays requirements
"The Heirloom Project provides traditional implementations of
standard Unix utilities. In many cases, they have been derived
from original Unix material released as Open Source by Caldera
and Sun."
Interfaces follow traditional practice; they remain generally
compatible with System V, although extensions that have become
common use over the course of time are sometimes provided. Most
utilities are also included in a variant that aims at POSIX
conformance.
On the interior, technologies for the twenty-first century such
as the UTF-8 character encoding or OpenType fonts are supported."
As you can see from bugs #431231, #139861 and #388689, UTF-8-support of
GNU coreutils suck snow out of Mt. Fuji and there is no fix in sight.
Some Linux-distributors have created their own patches, but upstream
maintainers do not accept them. In Heirloom Toolchest UTF-8-support is
all fixed.
As you can see from bug #196762, groff can not be upgraded to the latest
version, because in Debian it has some Japanese support patch that is
not yet available for the latest version of groff. I do not know about
Unicode-support of groff, but at least in Heirloom Toolchest roff
support UTF-8 and OpenType, too.
Therefore, IMNSHO Heirloom Toolchest must be packaged for Debian ASAP.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (1100, 'testing'), (990, 'stable'), (500, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (101, 'testing'), (99, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
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