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Bug#849338: ITP: hxtools -- Collection of tools and scripts



On Sun, 2016-12-25 at 19:50 +0100, Jochen Sprickerhof wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> > Owner: Jochen Sprickerhof <jspricke@debian.org>
> 
> * Package name    : hxtools
>   Version         : 20150304
>   Upstream Author : Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
> * URL             : http://inai.de/projects/hxtools/
> * License         : GPL, LGPL, WTFPL
>   Programming Lang: C, Perl, Bash
>   Description     : Collection of tools and scripts
> 
>  A collection of tools and scripts that have accumulated over the years, and
>  each of which seems to be too small to warrants its own project.

These look mostly very esoteric; could you consider packaging just the
most general and polished ones?

[...]
>   * git-author-stat(1) - show commit author statistics of a git repository
>   * git-blame-stat(1) - show per-line author statistics of a git repository
>   * git-export-patch(1) - produce perfect patch from git commits for mail submission
>   * git-forest(1) - display the commit history forest
>   * git-lemon(1) - don't just pick cherries, but take it all (cherry-pick a commit range)
>   * git-new-root(1) - start a new root in the git history
>   * git-revert-stats(1) - show reverting statistics of a git repository
>   * git-track(1) - set up branch for tracking a remote

Perhaps (some of) these belong in the contrib directory of git
upstream?

[...]
>   * png2wx.pl(1) - transform arbitrary files into C++ files for wxWidgets
[...]
>   * rpmdep.pl(1) - read RPM dependencies and output a graph
[...]

Extensions like .pl in command names are forbidden by policy.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
I say we take off; nuke the site from orbit.  It's the only way to be
sure.

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