Bug#414865: popularity-contest: A script to filter requested/recommended/suggested packages

2009-05-13 Thread Christophe Lohr
Carsten Hey a écrit : As said in my other mail, I also think that this should be done this way. If you are not interested in writing a wrapper after I implemented the necessary parts in deborphan I could also implement everything needed in deborphan and orphaner, which would make this

Bug#414865: popularity-contest: A script to filter requested/recommended/suggested packages

2009-05-13 Thread Carsten Hey
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 10:10:17AM +0200, Christophe Lohr wrote: Please find in attachment a first draft of such a wrapper. Is it what you mean? Yes, this looks good. I would prefer to pass all option except possible popcon-nodependency ones to orphaner an let orphaner handle the rest, this

Bug#414865: popularity-contest: A script to filter requested/recommended/suggested packages

2009-05-13 Thread Christophe Lohr
Carsten Hey a écrit : On my system, popcon-largest-unused reports 967 OLD packets! According to my script popcon-nodependency, 475 of them are orphaned... Better ask combine (deborphan ... as described in my last mail, Well, the score is: 303... It's still a lot ;-) orphaner sorts

Bug#414865: Required changes in deborphan done, how to proceed? (Was: Bug#414865: popularity-contest: A script to filter requested/recommended/suggested packages)

2009-05-13 Thread Carsten Hey
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 03:53:51PM +0200, Carsten Hey wrote: On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 10:10:17AM +0200, Christophe Lohr wrote: Please find in attachment a first draft of such a wrapper. Is it what you mean? Yes, this looks good. I would prefer to pass all option except possible

Bug#414865: Required changes in deborphan done, how to proceed? (Was: Bug#414865: popularity-contest: A script to filter requested/recommended/suggested packages)

2009-05-13 Thread Bill Allombert
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 10:51:41PM +0200, Carsten Hey wrote: On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 03:53:51PM +0200, Carsten Hey wrote: On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 10:10:17AM +0200, Christophe Lohr wrote: Please find in attachment a first draft of such a wrapper. Is it what you mean? Yes, this looks

Bug#414865: Required changes in deborphan done, how to proceed? (Was: Bug#414865: popularity-contest: A script to filter requested/recommended/suggested packages)

2009-05-13 Thread Carsten Hey
reassign 414865 deborphan thanks On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 11:31:06PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 10:51:41PM +0200, Carsten Hey wrote: On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 03:53:51PM +0200, Carsten Hey wrote: On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 10:10:17AM +0200, Christophe Lohr wrote:

Bug#414865: popularity-contest: A script to filter requested/recommended/suggested packages

2009-05-12 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Carsten Hey (cars...@debian.org): Christian, orphaner has been forked, see #414865. I CC'd you because I'm interested in your views regarding forks and l10n issues, since you are very experienced in the latter. Translators will probably need to do double work since most strings are

Bug#414865: popularity-contest: A script to filter requested/recommended/suggested packages

2009-05-12 Thread Christophe Lohr
Carsten Hey a écrit : No, #414865 is assigned to popularity-contest and the proposed fix is a fork of orphaner. I think you are mixing two unrelated bugs. Well, the situation is a little bit confusing... It is my fault. My first need is rather classical: my hard disk is full now.

Bug#414865: popularity-contest: A script to filter requested/recommended/suggested packages

2009-05-12 Thread Carsten Hey
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 02:35:57PM +0200, Christophe Lohr wrote: But perhaps deborphan and orphaner can do most of the work themselves. deborphan is able to manages the dependency better than a grep in a list, and orphaner does interaction with the administrator. So, deborphan and orphaner

Bug#414865: popularity-contest: A script to filter requested/recommended/suggested packages

2009-05-11 Thread Christophe Lohr
Bill Allombert a écrit : 2) you do not remove dependency from other OLD packages recursively. Hello, This fourth version of popcon-nodependency is closer to deborphan: . the -e option accepts a list of packets to exclude, separated by commas . it manages a list of files to keep

Bug#414865: popularity-contest: A script to filter requested/recommended/suggested packages

2009-05-11 Thread Carsten Hey
Hi, thanks for the CC. On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 04:23:14PM +0200, Christophe Lohr wrote: . it manages a list of files to keep /var/lib/deborphan/keep (do one have to do something else specific?) deborphan 1.7.29 will allow optional comments in the keep file, these are whitespace separated

Bug#414865: popularity-contest: A script to filter requested/recommended/suggested packages

2009-05-11 Thread Carsten Hey
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 04:23:14PM +0200, Christophe Lohr wrote: Bill Allombert a écrit : This fourth version of popcon-nodependency is closer to deborphan: . the -e option accepts a list of packets to exclude, separated by commas I did just open popcon-retirement.sh and noticed that you

Bug#414865: popularity-contest: A script to filter requested/recommended/suggested packages

2009-05-11 Thread Christophe Lohr
Carsten Hey a écrit : I did just open popcon-retirement.sh and noticed that you did change the license to GPL. Sorry, I'm not very comfortable with licensing issues. So, here is v0.2 Regards, Christophe popcon-retirement.sh Description: application/shellscript

Bug#414865: popularity-contest: A script to filter requested/recommended/suggested packages

2009-05-11 Thread Carsten Hey
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 06:14:43PM +0200, Christophe Lohr wrote: Carsten Hey a écrit : I did just open popcon-retirement.sh and noticed that you did change the license to GPL. Sorry, I'm not very comfortable with licensing issues. Such things are not that complicated: You are allowed to

Bug#414865: popularity-contest: A script to filter requested/recommended/suggested packages

2009-05-11 Thread Carsten Hey
Christian, orphaner has been forked, see #414865. I CC'd you because I'm interested in your views regarding forks and l10n issues, since you are very experienced in the latter. Translators will probably need to do double work since most strings are currently the same. The textdomain changed,

Bug#414865: popularity-contest: A script to filter requested/recommended/suggested packages

2009-05-11 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Carsten Hey] You write it is GPL without specifying any version, which means that this is GPL 1, I am not convinced it can be said to mean this. It could also mean the last version of the GPL (ie version 3 :). I agree that it is a good idea to make it clear what the intention is. Happy

Bug#414865: popularity-contest: A script to filter requested/recommended/suggested packages

2009-05-11 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 08:22:50PM +0200, Carsten Hey wrote: Christian, orphaner has been forked, see #414865. I CC'd you because I'm interested in your views regarding forks and l10n issues, since you are very experienced in the latter. I think you mean another bug: 414865 is assigned to

Bug#414865: popularity-contest: A script to filter requested/recommended/suggested packages

2009-05-11 Thread Carsten Hey
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 09:39:34PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 08:22:50PM +0200, Carsten Hey wrote: Christian, orphaner has been forked, see #414865. I CC'd you because I'm interested in your views regarding forks and l10n issues, since you are very experienced in

Bug#414865: popularity-contest: A script to filter requested/recommended/suggested packages

2009-05-11 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 09:50:51PM +0200, Carsten Hey wrote: On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 09:39:34PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 08:22:50PM +0200, Carsten Hey wrote: Christian, orphaner has been forked, see #414865. I CC'd you because I'm interested in your views

Bug#414865: popularity-contest: A script to filter requested/recommended/suggested packages

2009-05-11 Thread Carsten Hey
Christian, there is currently no need to answer my question regarding forking and l10n. I'll ping you again if there is really need for this information. On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 11:37:48PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 09:50:51PM +0200, Carsten Hey wrote: On Mon, May

Bug#414865: popularity-contest: A script to filter requested/recommended/suggested packages

2009-05-08 Thread Christophe Lohr
Hello, Bill Allombert a écrit : 2) you do not remove dependency from other OLD packages recursively. This third version accepts a list of packets to exclude (option -e). These packets are considered as not installed on the system (ignore dependency clamed by these packets, and remove them

Bug#414865: popularity-contest: A script to filter requested/recommended/suggested packages

2009-05-07 Thread Christophe Lohr
Hello Bill, Thank you for your remarks. Bill Allombert a écrit : Hello Christophe, I am afraid your script does not work accurately: 1) you do not remove dependencies from package that are not installed but still in dpkg database (not in 'ok installed' state). I think the new version

Bug#414865: popularity-contest: A script to filter requested/recommended/suggested packages

2009-05-06 Thread Christophe Lohr
Package: popularity-contest Severity: normal Hi, popularity-contest can have several usage. For example, popularity-contest | grep 'OLD' will show me a list of packages I have not been used for more than three months. Then, popcon-largest-unused sorts unused packets by size. However,

Bug#414865: popularity-contest: A script to filter requested/recommended/suggested packages

2009-05-06 Thread Bill Allombert
On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 04:04:16PM +0200, Christophe Lohr wrote: Package: popularity-contest Severity: normal Hi, popularity-contest can have several usage. For example, popularity-contest | grep 'OLD' will show me a list of packages I have not been used for more than three months.