Re: Needa sponsor/advocate

2001-10-01 Thread Peter S Galbraith


David Caldwell wrote:

I packaged up a small program I wrote a while ago for my 
 first package:
 
  Package: eol
  Version: 1.0.2-1
  Section: text
  Priority: optional
  Architecture: i386
  Depends: libc6 (= 2.2.3-7)
  Installed-Size: 64
  Maintainer: David Caldwell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Description: Translates text files between Mac, DOS, and Unix formats
   'eol' contains 4 programs that help you deal with cross-platform text 
 files:
 - tounix converts a text file into Unix format (eol=lf) from any format.
 - tomac converts a text file into Macintosh format (eol=cr) from any 
 format.
 - todos converts a text file into DOS format (eol=crlf) from any format.
 - towin converts a text file into DOS format (eol=crlf) from any format.
 
 It is available at:
 ftp://ftp.indigita.com/other/david/eol/eol_1.0.2-1_i386.deb

This will clash with an existing package:

$ dpkg -L sysutils | grep todos
/usr/bin/todos
/usr/share/man/man1/todos.1.gz

Peter


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Re: Needa sponsor/advocate

2001-10-01 Thread Peter S Galbraith

David Caldwell wrote:

I packaged up a small program I wrote a while ago for my 
 first package:
 
  Package: eol
  Version: 1.0.2-1
  Section: text
  Priority: optional
  Architecture: i386
  Depends: libc6 (= 2.2.3-7)
  Installed-Size: 64
  Maintainer: David Caldwell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Description: Translates text files between Mac, DOS, and Unix formats
   'eol' contains 4 programs that help you deal with cross-platform text 
 files:
 - tounix converts a text file into Unix format (eol=lf) from any format.
 - tomac converts a text file into Macintosh format (eol=cr) from any 
 format.
 - todos converts a text file into DOS format (eol=crlf) from any format.
 - towin converts a text file into DOS format (eol=crlf) from any format.
 
 It is available at:
 ftp://ftp.indigita.com/other/david/eol/eol_1.0.2-1_i386.deb

This will clash with an existing package:

$ dpkg -L sysutils | grep todos
/usr/bin/todos
/usr/share/man/man1/todos.1.gz

Peter



Re: Needa sponsor/advocate

2001-09-30 Thread Erich Schubert

 Description: Translates text files between Mac, DOS, and Unix formats
  'eol' contains 4 programs that help you deal with cross-platform text 
 files:
- tounix converts a text file into Unix format (eol=lf) from any format.
- tomac converts a text file into Macintosh format (eol=cr) from any 
 format.
- todos converts a text file into DOS format (eol=crlf) from any format.
- towin converts a text file into DOS format (eol=crlf) from any format.

Do you know recode?
recode knows over 200 different character sets and file formats and can
easily be used for that. So insted of making separate programs, i'd
suggest using aliases like
alias dos2unix='recode dos/CR-LF..l1'
alias unix2dos='recode l1..dos/CR-LF'
alias unix2win='recode l1..windows-1250'

Recoding isn't trivial, and your claim from any format won't hold for
sure, as most codeset's cannot be distinguished at all.
Furthermore it looks like converting to Mac isn't completely done by
replacing the linefeeds with carriage returns.
Windows does use a different codepage as dos, afaik!
Even DOS doesn't always use the same Codepage.
It usually uses 437 OR 850 though.
So expect to get bugs over bugs for your package.

But i don't want to warp you from becoming a Debian Packager, i'm still
in the New Maintainer Process myself.
I'm doing Debian Packages for a Library i found in the 'net not
available for Debian yet - and learned a lot as it contains wrappers for
perl, python, php (and ruby and java, but i couldn't get these to work
yet...) - so my source package generates 7 binary packages, i needed to
split correctly.

Greetings,
Erich

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Re: Needa sponsor/advocate

2001-09-30 Thread Carlos Laviola

On Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 04:48:20PM +0200, Erich Schubert wrote:
  Description: Translates text files between Mac, DOS, and Unix formats
   'eol' contains 4 programs that help you deal with cross-platform text 
  files:
 - tounix converts a text file into Unix format (eol=lf) from any format.
 - tomac converts a text file into Macintosh format (eol=cr) from any 
  format.
 - todos converts a text file into DOS format (eol=crlf) from any format.
 - towin converts a text file into DOS format (eol=crlf) from any format.
 
 Do you know recode?

There's also the ``mtools'' package.

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Re: Needa sponsor/advocate

2001-09-30 Thread Carlos Laviola
On Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 04:48:20PM +0200, Erich Schubert wrote:
  Description: Translates text files between Mac, DOS, and Unix formats
   'eol' contains 4 programs that help you deal with cross-platform text 
  files:
 - tounix converts a text file into Unix format (eol=lf) from any format.
 - tomac converts a text file into Macintosh format (eol=cr) from any 
  format.
 - todos converts a text file into DOS format (eol=crlf) from any format.
 - towin converts a text file into DOS format (eol=crlf) from any format.
 
 Do you know recode?

There's also the ``mtools'' package.

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Needa sponsor/advocate

2001-09-29 Thread David Caldwell

Hi,
  Thanks to everyone who responded before about getting my gpg key signed. 
I put in my application to be a new maintainer and so I need an advocate 
and a sponser. I packaged up a small program I wrote a while ago for my 
first package:

 Package: eol
 Version: 1.0.2-1
 Section: text
 Priority: optional
 Architecture: i386
 Depends: libc6 (= 2.2.3-7)
 Installed-Size: 64
 Maintainer: David Caldwell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Description: Translates text files between Mac, DOS, and Unix formats
  'eol' contains 4 programs that help you deal with cross-platform text 
files:
- tounix converts a text file into Unix format (eol=lf) from any format.
- tomac converts a text file into Macintosh format (eol=cr) from any 
format.
- todos converts a text file into DOS format (eol=crlf) from any format.
- towin converts a text file into DOS format (eol=crlf) from any format.

It is available at:
ftp://ftp.indigita.com/other/david/eol/eol_1.0.2-1_i386.deb

Thanks,
  David


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Needa sponsor/advocate

2001-09-29 Thread David Caldwell

Hi,
 Thanks to everyone who responded before about getting my gpg key signed. 
I put in my application to be a new maintainer and so I need an advocate 
and a sponser. I packaged up a small program I wrote a while ago for my 
first package:


Package: eol
Version: 1.0.2-1
Section: text
Priority: optional
Architecture: i386
Depends: libc6 (= 2.2.3-7)
Installed-Size: 64
Maintainer: David Caldwell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Description: Translates text files between Mac, DOS, and Unix formats
 'eol' contains 4 programs that help you deal with cross-platform text 
files:

   - tounix converts a text file into Unix format (eol=lf) from any format.
   - tomac converts a text file into Macintosh format (eol=cr) from any 
format.

   - todos converts a text file into DOS format (eol=crlf) from any format.
   - towin converts a text file into DOS format (eol=crlf) from any format.

It is available at:
ftp://ftp.indigita.com/other/david/eol/eol_1.0.2-1_i386.deb

Thanks,
 David