Bug#479139: newspost -- Command line tool for binary Usenet posting

[David <david_moerike@arcor.de>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: David <david_moerike@arcor.de>


* Package name    : newspost
 Version         : x.y.z
 Upstream Author : Name <somebody@example.org>
* URL             : http://www.example.org/
* License         : (GPL, LGPL, BSD, MIT/X, etc.)
 Programming Lang: (C, C++, C#, Perl, Python, etc.)
 Description     : Command line tool for binary Usenet posting

I am working on an *experimental* new version of newspost.

Features:

- bigger lines argument (default 50000, max. 5 millions)
- new option -2, to make par2 files

The way to achieve that is relatively primitive: To externally call the
program par2create (or another program), then do the normal posting,
then change to the dir where the par2 files are, then recursively
call oneself to post the par2 files too.

Precautions against the danger of infinite recursion have been made.

I have made one *successful* test by uploading a short (5 MB) video via
news.t-online.de to the Usenet (my provider allows up to 1 MB per
message but newspost splits it).

the UseNeXT client could successfully download the files and put them
together, result was the original video file.

However I have problems with testing because on UseNeXT I only
have a testing account, so I want to publish the program soon.

Last few days I got from the newsserver:

WARNING: Posting failed: 441 437 EMP rejected (md5)

which - as I believe - is not an error of the program
but a precaution from T-Online against spamming.

So I need for testing some help, also for packaging. I have learnt how
to make a clean changelog file using dch, however dpkg-buildpackage
says that it builds a native package while the original is not native,
and I want to build a non-native package, then upload it with dput
to mentors.debian.org.

I have not yet contacted Jim Faulkner, the author, but want to do that 
today.

David


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
 APT prefers testing
 APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash