Bug#509685: ITP: hardlink -- Hardlink multiple copies of the same file

2008-12-27 Thread Joerg Jaspert
We already have these packages: fdupes perforate AFAIK, they do not replace files, they just find them. Wrong, fdupe from perforate does link them together if one wants to. Imagine you have two backups, each on a different filesystem. Now you want to have them both on one filesystem.

Bug#509685: ITP: hardlink -- Hardlink multiple copies of the same file

2008-12-27 Thread ChristophFranzen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I am the chf who requested the program on IRC in the first place, and noticing the serious doubts expressed here whether that package is really needed in Debian, I want to point out why I need it nonetheless, and, more important here, why I

Bug#509685: ITP: hardlink -- Hardlink multiple copies of the same file

2008-12-26 Thread Samuel Thibault
John Goerzen, le Fri 26 Dec 2008 08:54:53 -0600, a écrit : Samuel Thibault wrote: John Goerzen, le Thu 25 Dec 2008 12:04:43 -0600, a écrit : Julian Andres Klode wrote: Hardlink is a tool which detects multiple copies of the same file and replaces them with hardlinks. . The idea

Bug#509685: ITP: hardlink -- Hardlink multiple copies of the same file

2008-12-26 Thread John Goerzen
Julian Andres Klode wrote: On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 12:04:43PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: Julian Andres Klode wrote: Hardlink is a tool which detects multiple copies of the same file and replaces them with hardlinks. . The idea has been taken from http://code.google.com/p/hardlinkpy/,

Bug#509685: ITP: hardlink -- Hardlink multiple copies of the same file

2008-12-26 Thread John Goerzen
Samuel Thibault wrote: John Goerzen, le Thu 25 Dec 2008 12:04:43 -0600, a écrit : Julian Andres Klode wrote: Hardlink is a tool which detects multiple copies of the same file and replaces them with hardlinks. . The idea has been taken from http://code.google.com/p/hardlinkpy/, but the

Bug#509685: ITP: hardlink -- Hardlink multiple copies of the same file

2008-12-26 Thread Samuel Thibault
John Goerzen, le Thu 25 Dec 2008 12:04:43 -0600, a écrit : Julian Andres Klode wrote: Hardlink is a tool which detects multiple copies of the same file and replaces them with hardlinks. . The idea has been taken from http://code.google.com/p/hardlinkpy/, but the code has been

Bug#509685: ITP: hardlink -- Hardlink multiple copies of the same file

2008-12-26 Thread Sandro Tosi
On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 13:23, Julian Andres Klode j...@debian.org wrote: On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 12:04:43PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: Julian Andres Klode wrote: Hardlink is a tool which detects multiple copies of the same file and replaces them with hardlinks. . The idea has

Bug#509685: ITP: hardlink -- Hardlink multiple copies of the same file

2008-12-26 Thread Julian Andres Klode
On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 12:04:43PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: Julian Andres Klode wrote: Hardlink is a tool which detects multiple copies of the same file and replaces them with hardlinks. . The idea has been taken from http://code.google.com/p/hardlinkpy/, but the code has

Bug#509685: ITP: hardlink -- Hardlink multiple copies of the same file

2008-12-26 Thread John Goerzen
Julian Andres Klode wrote: Hardlink is a tool which detects multiple copies of the same file and replaces them with hardlinks. . The idea has been taken from http://code.google.com/p/hardlinkpy/, but the code has been written from scratch and licensed under the MIT license. Do we

Bug#509685: ITP: hardlink -- Hardlink multiple copies of the same file

2008-12-24 Thread Julian Andres Klode
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Julian Andres Klode j...@debian.org * Package name: hardlink Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Julian Andres Klode j...@jak-linux.org * URL : http://git.debian.org/?p=users/jak/hardlink.git;a=summary * License : MIT *