This is another regularly repost to bring your attention again to my newly uploaded package
"histring", in hoping it will catch someone's attention eventually.
The package was already *lintian clean*, and without any build problems when
first uploaded (Ref
http://mentors.debian.net/package/histring), then later passed through
another round of review, and all the found issues have been fixed
already. So, please, you don't need to spend much time on this, other
than uploading.
Here is my "sales-pitch" again:
histring is a general purpose highlighting tool that works with arbitrary
input text file (e.g. all sorts of log files), and highlight different
parts in different colours (e.g., warnings and errors are
highlighted with different colours). You can use this single small
tool to replace all kinds of special purpose log parsing tools, and it
can do much more, like highlighting several things in different
colours while reading a long article, or highlighting results from
vcsdiff, etc. E.g.,
http://sfxpt.wordpress.com/2013/06/02/highlighting-strings-in-text-output-with-histring/
Once again, I am looking for a sponsor for my newly upgraded package
"histring".
* Package name : histring
Version : 1.1.1-1
* URL : https://github.com/suntong001/histring
* License : GPL-2.0+
Section : utils
It builds those binary packages:
histring - highlight strings using ANSI terminal escape sequences
To access further information about this package, please visit the
following URL:
http://mentors.debian.net/package/histring
Alternatively, one can download the package with dget using this command:
dget -x http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/h/histring/histring_1.1.1-1.dsc
More information about hello can be obtained from
http://sfxpt.wordpress.com/2013/06/02/highlighting-strings-in-text-output-with-histring/
Once again, here are the issues that have been fixed from the review:
> Hi! I'm not a DD, so I can't sponsor your package, but here are some
> things that I've noticed:
>
> * It may be a good idea to make releases as tarballs still, instead of
> just making Debian releases, so that other distros can benefit as well.
>
> * As far as I can see, you can fix "deprecated-configure-filename". All
> you would need to do is change the name of
configure.in to
configure.ac.
>
> * Unless you have a compelling reason, the priority of the package (in
> d/control) should be "optional", not "extra".
>
> * This isn't important, but it would be nice if you put the histring
> manpage outside of the Debian directory when you make your next upstream
> release. This way, other distros and people who build from source will
> also benefit from the manpage.
>
> * There are a few minor grammatical errors in histring --help:
> "useage" should be "usage"
> "your self" should be "yourself" "hilighting" should be
"highlighting"
>
> Good luck getting your package into Debian!
>
> Riley Baird
Thanks &
Best Regards,
Tong Sun