I recently took over as maintainer of the miscutils package. I'm working
on a new release, but I have several questions to ask before I continue.
* miscutils is one of the few (only?) debian packages currently
distributed without diffs. I'd like to distribute it with diffs.
* The miscutils come from the util-linux distribution maintained by
Rik Faith and others.
* util-linux 2.5 contains _much_ more than miscutils; specifically, it
contains stuff to be found in these debian packages:
bsdutils, mount, syslogd, chfn, last, and others.
* Some important util-linux 2.5 utilities are missing from Debian, such as
setterm, ipcs, ipcrm, etc. Copyright permitting, I would like to add
these packages (as appropriate) to miscutils.
* I'm not sure how to approach the diff problem. Surely I do not want
to leave all of the unused source files from util-linux in the debian
miscutils package. Should the diffs make these files empty?
* Should I just throw away the idea of providing diffs?
* Should we consider merging bsdutils and miscutils into one package?
Any ideas to help make miscutils a better, cleaner package are welcome.
Below is a list of programs in util-linux and where they appear in
the Debian distribution.
Thanks,
Jeff
PS - should I also post this to debian-user?
--------- snip ---------
util-linux
program - debian package name
disk-utils/
fdformat - miscutils
fdisk - miscutils
fsck.minix - miscutils
mkfs - miscutils
mkfs.minix - miscutils
mkswap - miscutils
setfdprm - miscutils
login-utils/
agetty - miscutils (as getty)
chfn - chfn
chsh - chfn
last - last
login - miscutils
mesg - bsdutils
newgrp - miscutils
shutdown - sysvinit
simpleinit - N/A
vipw - not found! (miscutils)
wall - bsdutils
misc-utils/
cal - bsdutils
chkdupexe - not found! [purpose?]
clear - ncurses-runtime
domainname - netstd
dsplit - dsplit [different?]
getoptprog - miscutils? (getopt)
hostid - not found! [necessary?]
hostname - hostname
kill - bsdutils
logger - bsdutils
mcookie - not found! [purpose?]
md5sum - dpkg
namei - not found! [purpose?]
reset - ncurses-runtime
script - bsdutils
setterm - not found! [copyright?]
tsort - bsdutils
mount/* - mount
sys-utils/
arch - miscutils
chroot - bsdutils
clock - miscutils
ctrlaltdel - not found!
ipcrm - not found!
ipcs - not found!
kbdrate - miscutils
rdev - miscutils
renice - bsdutils
readprofile - not found! [purpose?]
setserial - setserial
setsid - not found!
syslogd/* - syslogd
text-utils/
col - bsdutils
colcrt - bsdutils
colrm - bsdutils
column - bsdutils
more - bsdutils
rev - not found!
strings - binutils
ul - bsdutils
hexdump - bsdutils
od - textutils
