Re: Introduction And Request for Help

[Doug Hoyte <doug@hoytech.com>]

Hi Gregor and Mikko,

Sorry for hijacking this thread, but can I please request a new package too?

App::Session::Token / 
https://metacpan.org/dist/App-Session-Token/view/bin/session-token

This is a command-line interface for my Session::Token library (already 
packaged as libsession-token-perl).

For my everyday work-flow, it's the only package I still need to install 
from CPAN. I also think it would be useful for other people. If I had to 
suggest a package name I'd say just "session-token" (name of the bin) 
but anything would be fine.

Actually I tried to figure out how to do the packaging myself a while 
ago, but something wasn't working for me (a form URL was timing out 
IIRC) so I gave up.

In case it helps, I made a wish-list description:

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name    : session-token
  Version         : 0.102
  Upstream Author : Doug Hoyte <doug@hcsw.org>
* URL             : https://metacpan.org/dist/App-Session-Token
* License         : Artistic or GPL-1+
  Programming Lang: Perl
  Description     : Generate session tokens, passwords, random data, 
and more

The session-token script is a command-line interface to the 
Session::Token library,
packaged as libsession-token-perl. It is a flexible utility for 
generating random
data, allowing users to specify alternate alphabets, and specify random 
token sizes
by minimum entropy or directly by size. Multiple tokens can be output as 
a stream,
useful in pipelines. An arbitrary seed can be provided in case 
deterministic output
is needed, for example in test suites.


Thank you!!

Doug



On 10/31/23 04:26, Mikko Koivunalho wrote:
> Hi Gregor,
>
>
> > On 31 Oct 2023, at 01:21, gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, 28 Oct 2023 10:56:46 +0200, Mikko Johannes Koivunalho wrote:
> >
> > > Hi All,
> > Hi Mikko!
> >
> > > I have a few packages at CPAN.
> > > Recently, I created a package, Env::Assert
> > > <https://metacpan.org/dist/Env-Assert> which I used at the office when
> > > creating containers for data pipelines.
> > Alright :)
> >
> > > To make it easier to use Env::Assert in Debian containers, I would like to
> > > package it for Debian. But I know nothing about Debian packaging, besides,
> > > of course, using them (installing with apt or dpkg).
> > > Can anyone help me to package Env::Assert, please?
> > I think the question is: What is your objective?
> > - If you want to learn creating Debian packages and join the Debian
> >   Perl Group and maintain 4000 packages -- great, we need more
> >   people!
> > - If you want to get Env::Assert into Debian, the easiest way is to
> >   ask us to package it :)
> Yes, please!
> Thank you.
>
> > If it's the latter: I just spent 2 minutes with dh-make-perl and
> > Env::Assert, and if I spend 5 minutes more, I can upload the package
> > to the archive. [0]
> Have I done everything right so the packaging is as easy as possible?
> Just tell me if there is anything missing.
>
>
> > If it's the former: Additionally to Andrius' hints we can give you
> > more pointers for getting into the packaging business.
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
> > gregor
> >
> >
> > [0] Although I just realize that this might be better named envassert
> > than libenv-assert-perl, as it's more about the binary than the
> > library, right?
> Yes, that’s right. In this case the library is mostly a bi-product, not really meant to be used by itself.
> Would it be better if Env::Assert was two separate (CPAN) packages, one for lib and one for executable?
>
> Thank you.
>
> Sincerely,
> Mikko Koivunalho
>
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