Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Lars Wirzenius
* Package name: dedupdedup
Version : 1.0
Upstream Author : Lars Wirzenius
* URL : http://liw.fi/dedupdedup/
* License : AGPLv3+
Programming Lang: Python
Description : find duplicate programs for fin
Lars Wirzenius writes:
> * Package name: dedupdedup
Is it recommended to sing the name of this package in a Frank Sinatra
impression?
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On Sun, 2012-04-01 at 09:48 +0100, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Lars Wirzenius
>
> * Package name: dedupdedup
> Version : 1.0
Where is this version? I couldn't see any releases on the site you
refer to.
> Upstream Author : Lars Wirzenius
>
]] Ben Hutchings
> > Not all duplicate file finder programs are exact copies of each other,
> > so dedupdedup embeds a simple AI system to compare programs, based on
> > package descriptions, --help output, and manual pages, to verify that
> > only the most complete of such programs remains.
>
>
On Sun, Apr 01, 2012 at 05:08:06PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> ]] Ben Hutchings
>
> > > Not all duplicate file finder programs are exact copies of each other,
> > > so dedupdedup embeds a simple AI system to compare programs, based on
> > > package descriptions, --help output, and manual page
Lars Wirzenius writes:
> On Sun, Apr 01, 2012 at 05:08:06PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
>> ]] Ben Hutchings
>>
>> > > Not all duplicate file finder programs are exact copies of each other,
>> > > so dedupdedup embeds a simple AI system to compare programs, based on
>> > > package descriptions
On Sun, Apr 01, 2012 at 05:54:50PM +0200, Gergely Nagy wrote:
> But, since freedom of choice IS important, and not everyone has seen the
> Light yet, I suppose we can maintain all three. But I strongly suggest
> the interchange format to be lisp code.
I object to data file formats that are express
On Sun, Apr 01, 2012 at 04:40:22PM +0100, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 01, 2012 at 05:08:06PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> > ]] Ben Hutchings
> > > init systems?
> >
> > aekeech6 can, at least.
>
> Given that yours is written in C and is therefore inflexible, and mine's
> in Python and
Lars Wirzenius writes:
> On Sun, Apr 01, 2012 at 05:54:50PM +0200, Gergely Nagy wrote:
>> But, since freedom of choice IS important, and not everyone has seen
>> the Light yet, I suppose we can maintain all three. But I strongly
>> suggest the interchange format to be lisp code.
> I object to da
On Sun, Apr 01, 2012 at 11:55:53AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> It's ridiculous that we would even consider endorsing a blatant
> reinvention of the wheel like WAP BXML rather than simply using ASN.1 as
> our standard binary encoding. Particularly since, as a bonus, that would
> allow us to store
Lars Wirzenius writes:
> I don't like ASN.1 either, but your point about the LDAP server is a
> good one. I've changed the code to produce ASN.1 records for anything it
> finds, and will be opening a separate discussion to convert the WNPP
> from debbugs into LDAP.
Oh, excellent. Then we can re
On Sun, Apr 01, 2012 at 12:23:35PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Lars Wirzenius writes:
>
> > I don't like ASN.1 either, but your point about the LDAP server is a
> > good one. I've changed the code to produce ASN.1 records for anything it
> > finds, and will be opening a separate discussion to co
> > Though I guess we could support both, and define an interchange format
> > for exchanging data between our two systems.
>
> Is there not a risk that they would dedupe each other ?
Not to mention the risk which any program which finds programs with
generalized duplicate-finder function inflicts
> > * Package name: dedupdedup
>
> Is it recommended to sing the name of this package in a Frank Sinatra
> impression?
In fact when I first read that I automatically read "dedupdedupdedup".
But apparently the last part has been deduplicated already ;-)
Olaf
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