On Wednesday 15 November 2017 at 07:31 pm +0100, Achim Gratz wrote: > Adam Dinwoodie writes: > > I'm looking to package moreutils, a collection of small Linux utilities. > > It is already included in Debian and Ubuntu (amongst others), and is > > released under GPLv2. > > This looks like a really mixed bag… Is there some more documentation > somewhere on the web?
The only online documentation I'm aware of is on the homepage I linked to, plus a bunch of folk espousing the benefits of the package. I guess you could also look at the man pages, either in the packages I uploaded, or the uncompiled source for them at https://git.joeyh.name/index.cgi/moreutils.git/tree/. > >> - parallel: run multiple jobs at once > > I'd be hesitatnt to package that since it directly clashes with GNU > parallel (not available on Cygwin yet). Hmm. I wasn't aware of GNU parallel, and I'm not sure how that sort of problem is generally handled. Possibly that could be broken out into a separate package to make it easier for folk to install one or the other? I considered and decided against breaking the entire lot into separate packages, but this is perhaps a good argument for at least separating that.
