Sponsor for multipipe
Hi! I just packaged the small multipipe tool from http://sourceforge.net/projects/multipipe. It can send its stdin to several other commands like this: cat blub |multipipe 'cat /dev/null' 'less' 'wc' I find this little tool very handy in many cases. Something like this should be available in Debian. You can download the source package from ftp://madroach.dyndns.org/multipipe/ I have not yet contacted upstream since the only way seems to contact upstream through sourceforge. Kind regards, Christopher Zimmermann pgpBBI0z0mumw.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Sponsor for multipipe
Hi, Christopher Zimmermann schrieb: I just packaged the small multipipe tool from http://sourceforge.net/projects/multipipe. IANADD but anyways, here are some (hopefully useful) comments: At first: You would help potential sponsors a lot if you could post more information about your package / the software you package. Like Author, Upstream URL, license, etc. You should consider your sponsorship request as an ad for your package, as such more information on first sight makes it easier to get some DD to sponsor your upload. But at least should you point a direct link to the .dsc file so that DD can use dget to get your package. Ok, but to go on: - debian/changelog: You should file an ITP bug for this package and close this one in the changelog (by adding (Closes: #)) - debian/copyright: According to the policy this file needs to include informations about copyright(s), upstream author, upstream location and license. See Policy 12.5 for more information. - debian/rules: * there is no need to keep the comments derived from the dh-make template * there are some uncommented entries, like line 38 or 72-83. If you don't need them, then don't keep them. * using dh_install for the installation of just one binary seems to be an overkill. i recommend you to use install instead. you can use with -D, then it will also create usr/bin which makes debian/dirs and the dh_installdirs call not needed Best Regards, Patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sponsor for multipipe
On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 04:32:13PM +0200, Christopher Zimmermann wrote: Hi! I just packaged the small multipipe tool from http://sourceforge.net/projects/multipipe. It can send its stdin to several other commands like this: cat blub |multipipe 'cat /dev/null' 'less' 'wc' Neat. You can do something similar using bashisms: echo foo |tee (sed s/^/x/) (sed s/^/y/) (sed s/^/z/) I find this little tool very handy in many cases. Something like this should be available in Debian. I have to agree :) You can download the source package from ftp://madroach.dyndns.org/multipipe/ Some comments: Your copyright file is incomplete (I think you know this). Ideally, debian/dirs:usr/bin isn't necessary since the upstream makefile should handle this. *some* debian/rules comments should go away. But you should also understand what eg. DH_VERBOSE, docbook-to-man, # dh_*, and the manpage macro comments do and try the relevant things once before getting rid of them. Your configure-stamp target seems to do nothing. You should understand why it was in the template and ultimately get rid of it. BTW tell your upstream that libc6 unistd.h already defines STDIN_FILENO and such, so main.c essentially just duplicates this. Justin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sponsor for multipipe
Hi, On Sunday 16 September 2007, Christopher Zimmermann wrote: I just packaged the small multipipe tool from http://sourceforge.net/projects/multipipe. It can send its stdin to several other commands like this: cat blub |multipipe 'cat /dev/null' 'less' 'wc' I find this little tool very handy in many cases. Something like this should be available in Debian. it already is. The program pee from the moreutils package seems to do the same. Please look whether multipipe can do anything pee can't. If no, then there is no need for multipipe in Debian (though it might be a good idea to add like multipipe or something similar to pee's description). Cheers, Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
