Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "rrep".
* Package name : rrep Version : 1.3.3-1 Upstream Author : Arno Onken <[email protected]> * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/rrep/ * License : GPL Section : utils It builds these binary packages: rrep - recursive pattern replacement utility The package appears to be lintian clean. The upload would fix these bugs: 636160 My motivation for maintaining this package is: Replacing patterns in multiple files is a fairly common task which can have a potentially disastrous outcome. I decided to write and package rrep for this purpose, because the alternatives were not really satisfying in terms of handling and function. In terms of handling, rrep is like a mixture of sed and grep. If you know grep and a bit of sed then you can also work with rrep. Similar programs that are already in Debian are sed and rpl. sed can be used to replace patterns in a single file. Together with find and xargs multiple files can be processed. However, sed offers no simulation or prompting modes which can be crucial for safely replacing patterns in files. Moreover, sed together with xargs and find cannot be used as comfortably as, for instance, grep to process multiple files in a directory tree. For these reasons another program that is similar to rrep was written before: rpl. The most widespread program of this type is rpl. Originally, there was only a proprietary implementation of rpl until a free replacement was written for the Debian project in 2004. This replacement was written in Python. Unlike sed or rrep, rpl has no support for referring to sub-expressions in the replacement string. The command-line options of rpl are not grep-like. Selection of multiple files subject to constraints is not as versatile as for rrep. Unlike rrep, rpl does not support all of the GNU backup options and there is no support for internationalization. The documentation of rpl is not as detailed as that of rrep. http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/rpl rrep has helped me numerous times to replace patterns reliably and safely. I hope that it will also be useful to other people. The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/r/rrep - Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main contrib non-free - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/r/rrep/rrep_1.3.3-1.dsc I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. Kind regards Arno Onken -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
