On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 06:47:22PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > Do we really need this trivial program which barely saves typing a few > characters, especially in a standalone package? > Also, what is wrong with cut(1)?
Seems to me two retoric questions. Quoting the original posting: > > I am the sole creator of field and expect to maintain the package when > > new bugs are found. The first build of the package can be found on my > > website[1] and as this is my first Debian package I would appreciate a > > sponsor. That seems to me a "Debian is a good FLOSS project, I want to contribute, here is my code which I have allready packaged!" Where I can understand the Point Of View of both Trevor and Marco, think I that the answer is some where in the middle. Such has having the 'field' codo in an existing Debian package. Groeten Geert Stappers [1] https://trevor.bramwell.net/downloads/field_0.2.0-1_amd64.deb -- Leven en laten leven
