Bug#1103180: ITP: ripgrep-all -- rga wraps ripgrep and enables it to search in pdf, docx, sqlite, jpg and more

[Matthias Geiger <werdahias@riseup.net>]

On Mon, 14 Apr 2025 23:31:00 +0000 Yifei Zhan <debian@zhan.science> wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Yifei Zhan <debian@zhan.science>
> X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian@zhan.science
>
> * Package name    : ripgrep-all
>   Version         : 0.10.6
>   Upstream Contact: phiresky <https://github.com/phiresky>
> * URL             : https://github.com/phiresky/ripgrep-all
> * License         : AGPLv3
>   Programming Lang: Rust
>   Description     : rga wraps ripgrep and enables it to search in pdf, docx,
> sqlite, jpg and more
>
> rga is a line-oriented search tool that recursively descends into archives and
> match text in every file type it knows. It's like ripgrep but supports PDFs,
> E-Books, Office documents, zip, tar.gz and more.
>
> I plan to prepare it on salsa and maintain it within the Debian Rust team.
> Being able to search through pdf/odt documents and compressed log files is
> nice.
I prepared all dependencies; right now this is stuck on 
https://github.com/phiresky/ripgrep-all/pull/281


I would avoid creating a semver package for async-zip; worst case we'd 
vendor it in. I am kinda busy right now, maybe we can work together on 
it over the holidays. Gladly I'd have another uploader on the package :)

best,

werdahias