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--- Begin Message ---Package: wnpp Severity: normal I request assistance with maintaining the devscripts package. I don't have the time, nor have I for awhile, to properly keep up with devscripts maintenance. The package description is: Contains the following scripts, dependencies/recommendations shown in brackets afterwards: . - annotate-output: run a command and prepend time and stream (O for stdout, E for stderr) for every line of output - archpath: print tla/Bazaar package names [tla | bazaar] - bts: a command-line tool for manipulating the BTS [www-browser, libauthen-sasl-perl, libnet-smtp-ssl-perl, libsoap-lite-perl, libwww-perl, bsd-mailx | mailx] - build-rdeps: search for all packages that build-depend on a given package [dctrl-tools] - chdist: tool to easily play with several distributions [dctrl-tools] - checkbashisms: check whether a /bin/sh script contains any common bash-specific contructs - cowpoke: upload a Debian source package to a cowbuilder host and build it, optionally also signing and uploading the result to an incoming queue [ssh-client] - cvs-debi, cvs-debc: wrappers around debi and debc respectively (see below) which allow them to be called from the CVS working directory [cvs-buildpackage] - cvs-debrelease: wrapper around debrelease which allows it to be called from the CVS working directory [cvs-buildpackage, dupload | dput, ssh-client] - cvs-debuild: wrapper for cvs-buildpackage to use debuild as its package building program [cvs-buildpackage, fakeroot, lintian, gnupg] - dcmd: run a given command replacing the name of a .changes or .dsc file with each of the files referenced therein - dcontrol: remotely query package and source control files for all Debian distributions [liburl-perl, libwww-perl] - dd-list: given a list of packages, pretty-print it ordered by maintainer - debc: display the contents of just-built .debs - debchange/dch: automagically add entries to debian/changelog files [libdistro-info-perl, libparse-debcontrol-perl, libsoap-lite-perl] - debcheckout: checkout the development repository of a Debian package - debclean: clean a Debian source tree [fakeroot] - debcommit: commit changes to cvs, darcs, svn, svk, tla, bzr, git, or hg, basing commit message on changelog [cvs | darcs | subversion | svk | tla | bzr | git-core | mercurial, libtimedate-perl] - debdiff: compare two versions of a Debian package to check for added and removed files [wdiff, patchutils] - debi: install a just-built package - debpkg: dpkg wrapper to be able to manage/test packages without su - debrelease: wrapper around dupload or dput [dupload | dput, ssh-client] - debsign, debrsign: sign a .changes/.dsc pair without needing any of the rest of the package to be present; can sign the pair remotely or fetch the pair from a remote machine for signing [gnupg, debian-keyring, ssh-client] - debsnap: grab packages from http://snapshot.debian.org [libwww-perl, libjson-perl] - debuild: wrapper to build a package without having to su or worry about how to invoke dpkg to build using fakeroot. Also deals with common environment problems, umask etc. [fakeroot, lintian, gnupg] - deb-reversion: increase a binary package version number and repacks the package, useful for porters and the like - dep3changelog: generate a changelog entry from a DEP3-style patch header - desktop2menu: given a freedesktop.org desktop file, generate a skeleton for a menu file [libfile-desktopentry-perl] - dget: download Debian source and binary packages [wget | curl] - diff2patches: extract patches from a .diff.gz file placing them under debian/ or, if present, debian/patches [patchutils] - dpkg-depcheck, dpkg-genbuilddeps: determine the packages used during the build of a Debian package; useful for determining the Build-Depends control field needed [build-essential, strace] - dscextract: extract a single file from a Debian source package [patchutils] - dscverify: verify the integrity of a Debian package from the .changes or .dsc files [gnupg, debian-keyring, libdigest-md5-perl] - edit-patch: add/edit a patch for a source package and commit the changes [quilt | dpatch | cdbs] - getbuildlog: download package build logs from Debian auto-builders [wget] - grep-excuses: grep the update_excuses.html file for your packages [libterm-size-perl, wget, w3m] - licensecheck: attempt to determine the license of source files - list-unreleased: search for unreleased packages - manpage-alert: locate binaries without corresponding manpages [man-db] - mass-bug: mass-file bug reports [bsd-mailx | mailx] - mergechanges: merge .changes files from the same release but built on different architectures - mk-build-deps: given a package name and/or control file, generate a binary package which may be installed to satisfy the build-dependencies of the given package [equivs] - mk-origtargz: rename upstream tarball, optionally changing the compression and removing unwanted files [unzip, xz-utils, file] - namecheck: check project names are not already taken - nmudiff: mail a diff of the current package against the previous version to the BTS to assist in tracking NMUs [patchutils, mutt] - origtargz: fetch the orig tarball of a Debian package from various sources, and unpack it - plotchangelog: view a nice plot of the data in a changelog file [libtimedate-perl, gnuplot] - pts-subscribe: subscribe to the PTS for a limited period of time [bsd-mailx | mailx, at] - rc-alert: list installed packages which have release-critical bugs [wget | curl] - rmadison: remotely query the Debian archive database about packages [liburi-perl, wget | curl] - sadt: run DEP-8 tests [python3-debian] - suspicious-source: output a list of files which are not common source files [python3-magic] - svnpath: print Subversion repository paths [subversion] - tagpending: run from a Debian source tree and tag bugs that are to be closed in the latest changelog as pending [libsoap-lite-perl] - transition-check: check a list of source packages for involvement in transitions for which uploads to unstable are currently blocked [libwww-perl, libyaml-syck-perl] - uscan: scan upstream sites for new releases of packages [gpgv, gnupg, liblwp-protocol-https-perl, libwww-perl, unzip, xz-utils, file] - uupdate: integrate upstream changes into a source package [patch] - what-patch: determine what patch system, if any, a source package is using [patchutils] - whodepends: check which maintainers' packages depend on a package - who-uploads: determine the most recent uploaders of a package to the Debian archive [gnupg, debian-keyring, debian-maintainers, wget] - wnpp-alert: list installed packages which are orphaned or up for adoption [wget | curl] - wnpp-check: check whether there is an open request for packaging or intention to package bug for a package [wget | curl] - who-permits-upload: Retrieve information about Debian Maintainer access control lists [gnupg, libencode-locale-perl, libparse-debcontrol-perl, libwww-perl, debian-keyring] - wrap-and-sort: wrap long lines and sort items in packaging files [python3-debian] . Also included are a set of example mail filters for filtering mail from Debian mailing lists using exim, procmail, etc.
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--- Begin Message ---Closing this, as devscripts has a "new" set of maintainers and people helping out. Best, Chris
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