2008/12/26 Weboide webo...@codealpha.net:
Dear mentors,
I am looking for a sponsor for my package furl.
* Package name: furl
Version : 2.1-1
Upstream Author : Kidney Bingos aka Chris Williams
ch...@kidney-bingos.demon.co.uk
* URL :
On Sat, 27 Dec 2008 02:04:29 +0100
Patrick Matthäi patrick.matth...@web.de wrote:
Jonathan Wiltshire schrieb:
On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 10:37:37PM +, Neil Williams wrote:
What if not? They stay open till someone else
tries to package it and gets rejected?
If there is no good reason to
Thanks everyone for your replies, this helped me understand more about
the maintainer job. I will pay more attention to total duplicate
programs before maintaining them.
I'll stop maintaining furl.
Thanks again.
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Weboide (Arnaud Soyez) webo...@codealpha.net
[Using: Linux ~ Ubuntu 8.10]
On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 09:03:36AM -0500, Weboide wrote:
Thanks everyone for your replies, this helped me understand more about
the maintainer job. I will pay more attention to total duplicate
programs before maintaining them.
I'll stop maintaining furl.
If it's much consolation your
You could still use your package yourself (dpkg -i .deb)
Yeah actually I put some of the packages I do on my PPA (launchpad)
so anyone can access it. So I've put this one too.
Next time it is wise to retitle your chosen RFP into an ITP
I also did that too, I changed it back to RFP before
Russ Allbery writes
Jonathan Wiltshire writes:
What does furl do that other packages can't? We already have curl, lynx,
wget and even telnet can be used to dump headers. Can you justify having
this package in the archive?
Also, HEAD from the libwww-perl package, which is designed for exactly
On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 6:18 AM, Daniel Aleksandersen wrote:
I requested furl because I think it is much easier to use than the
alternates.
I know other programs does simular tasks, but furl formates the outbut
better.
Also, it does not require any deeper knowledge to get it working.
furl
Dear mentors,
I am looking for a sponsor for my package furl.
* Package name: furl
Version : 2.1-1
Upstream Author : Kidney Bingos aka Chris Williams
ch...@kidney-bingos.demon.co.uk
* URL : http://www.gumbynet.org.uk/software/furl.html
* License : GPL
On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 11:29:29AM -0500, Weboide wrote:
I am looking for a sponsor for my package furl.
IANADD and can't upload for you, sorry. But some comments for your
review:
In your packaging you have a
compat level of 7 but don't use debhelper 7 to its potential; you should
take as
Jonathan Wiltshire deb...@jwiltshire.org.uk writes:
More fundamentally:
What does furl do that other packages can't? We already have curl, lynx,
wget and even telnet can be used to dump headers. Can you justify having
this package in the archive?
Also, HEAD from the libwww-perl package,
Thanks for replying this quick.
I chose to package this because this was a RFP and it was a small and
useful tool for getting HTTP headers, and doesn't use many libraries. I
agree that some other programs do the same thing and surely more than
that.
What do you suggest? Should I stop working on
On Fri, 26 Dec 2008 17:00:04 -0500
Weboide webo...@codealpha.net wrote:
Thanks for replying this quick.
I chose to package this because this was a RFP and it was a small and
useful tool for getting HTTP headers, and doesn't use many libraries.
I agree that some other programs do the same
On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 10:37:37PM +, Neil Williams wrote:
What if not? They stay open till someone else
tries to package it and gets rejected?
If there is no good reason to turn an RFP into an ITP and thence into
an upload, there is no reason to leave the RFP open.
I think perhaps
Jonathan Wiltshire schrieb:
On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 10:37:37PM +, Neil Williams wrote:
What if not? They stay open till someone else
tries to package it and gets rejected?
If there is no good reason to turn an RFP into an ITP and thence into
an upload, there is no reason to leave the RFP
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