On 25-06-2019 08:40, swiftg...@gmail.com wrote: > I have written a simple command line utility in Rust that I hope may be > useful to others. The repo is https://github.com/swiftgist/diskspace. I > am releasing a minimal debian package currently and need a sponsor.
Hello Eric, I may be missing something, but what does you utility do that is not handled by 'du -h | sort -h | tail -n 20' ? One of the criteria for software to enter Debian is it being generally useful and balance the added functionality with the inevitable resources that will be required to keep a package in the archive. In this case, unless I am missing something, your utility does not offer any function that cannot be readily obtained combining standard utilities already in Debian. This is also a balance in discoverability: anyone familiar with an Unix command line would find the above solution more quickly reading the relevant man pages, than searching the archive for a package doing the same. Additionally, because of the flat hierarchy of the binaries in $PATH, I think that any command line utility with a two characters name is very likely to incur in a name collision. Cheers, Dan
