The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to mailing-list.debian-devel as well.
>>>>> "rganesan" == rganesan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Package: wnpp > Version: N/A > Severity: wishlist > ssed is a version of sed that supports a few new features, including Perl > regular expressions and much greater speed than GNU sed. A few experimental > features were mutuated from Perl, including in-place editing (the `i' flag) > and the ability to pipe a command in the Bourne shell was added. > http://spazioweb.inwind.it/seders/ssed/ > http://www.gnu.org/directory/super-sed.html > Super sed is derived from GNU sed 3.02 and is licensed under GPL. However it > is not a GNU project package. I started packaging it and ran into a couple of problems 1. The source tarball is still called sed (the latest version is sed-3.52.tar.gz). What are my options of dealing with this other than asking upstream to change the source tarball? 2. I compiled with a program prefix of 's', so super sed binary will be called ssed to differentiate it from GNU sed. I'll also use alternatives to make this the default sed. This takes care of the binary and the man page, however the info pages are still called sed.info, sed.info-1 :-(. GNU sed was last released in August 1998 and for all practical purposes this is the only maintained version of sed. I have no idea why super sed changes are not merged into GNU sed, I am waiting to hear from the author on this. Ganesan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
