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Bug#666715: ITP: dedupdedup -- find duplicate programs for finding duplicate files



On Sun, 2012-04-01 at 09:48 +0100, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi>
> 
> * Package name    : dedupdedup
>   Version         : 1.0

Where is this version?  I couldn't see any releases on the site you
refer to.

>   Upstream Author : Lars Wirzenius
> * URL             : http://liw.fi/dedupdedup/
> * License         : AGPLv3+
>   Programming Lang: Python
>   Description     : find duplicate programs for finding duplicate files
> 
> dedupdedup is a program to find duplicate programs for finding duplicate
> files on the filesystem. It looks through the Debian package archive
> and the open ITP bugs to find programs that find duplicate files. It
> can then optionally close the ITP bugs, and file bugs against
> ftp-master.debian.org to get such programs to be removed from the
> archive.

This would be very useful, thanks.

> Not all duplicate file finder programs are exact copies of each other,
> so dedupdedup embeds a simple AI system to compare programs, based on
> package descriptions, --help output, and manual pages, to verify that
> only the most complete of such programs remains.

Can like this be generalised to dedupe web servers, window managers and
init systems?

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
I'm always amazed by the number of people who take up solipsism because
they heard someone else explain it. - E*Borg on alt.fan.pratchett

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