Bug#830983: ITP: field -- extracts a list of fields from a file

2016-07-13 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 01:08:25PM -0500, Matt Zagrabelny wrote: > Perhaps moreutils? > > The utilities provided therein are (partially) written in perl. So it > is out of place in that regards - but certainly not a show stopping > road block. > > Joey Hess is the maintainer according to: > >

Bug#830983: ITP: field -- extracts a list of fields from a file

2016-07-13 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 1:14 PM, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 01:08:25PM -0500, Matt Zagrabelny wrote: >> Perhaps moreutils? >> >> The utilities provided therein are (partially) written in perl. So it >> is out of place in that regards - but certainly not a show

Bug#830983: ITP: field -- extracts a list of fields from a file

2016-07-13 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 12:50 PM, Trevor Bramwell wrote: > On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 07:39:32PM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: >> Such has having the 'field' codo in an existing Debian package. > > If you would be so kind as to point me to the right package this should > be

Bug#830983: ITP: field -- extracts a list of fields from a file

2016-07-13 Thread Trevor Bramwell
On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 07:39:32PM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: > That seems to me a "Debian is a good FLOSS project, I want to contribute, > here is my code which I have allready packaged!" Bingo. In fact the code is already packaged for Python[1]. I have high hopes of getting more involved in

Bug#830983: ITP: field -- extracts a list of fields from a file

2016-07-13 Thread Geert Stappers
On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 06:47:22PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > Do we really need this trivial program which barely saves typing a few > characters, especially in a standalone package? > Also, what is wrong with cut(1)? Seems to me two retoric questions. Quoting the original posting: > > I am

Bug#830983: ITP: field -- extracts a list of fields from a file

2016-07-13 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jul 13, Trevor Bramwell wrote: > field it is a simpler version of: > > awk '{ print $5,$3,$1; }' Do we really need this trivial program which barely saves typing a few characters, especially in a standalone package? Also, what is wrong with cut(1)? -- ciao,

Bug#830983: ITP: field -- extracts a list of fields from a file

2016-07-13 Thread Trevor Bramwell
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Trevor Bramwell * Package name: field Version : 0.2.0 Upstream Author : Trevor Bramwell * URL : https://github.com/bramwelt/field * License : GPLv3+ Programming Lang: Python