FS#24971 - Replace extra/hd2u with dos2unix sourceforge.net implementation

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Anonymous Submitter - Thursday, 30 June 2011, 21:11 GMT
Last edited by Giovanni Scafora (giovanni) - Saturday, 09 July 2011, 06:21 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Giovanni Scafora (giovanni)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 3
Private No

Details

Description:

hd2u has not been maintained for quite some time while dos2unix sourceforge.net implementation (http://waterlan.home.xs4all.nl/dos2unix.html) has been maintained properly. This package is available in AUR at http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=36163 . Please replace outdated hd2u with dos2unix package as the default one and move hd2u to AUR instead. Thanks in advance.

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* config and/or log files etc.


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Closed by  Giovanni Scafora (giovanni)
Saturday, 09 July 2011, 06:21 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't implement
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Monday, 04 July 2011, 18:51 GMT
What shortcomings does hd2u have that dos2unix doesn't? IMHO such a simple tool doesn't need active development. The only shortcomings on the current package known to me is that the PKGBUILD uses 'make prefix="$pkgdir/usr"' where it should use 'make BUILD_ROOT="$pkgdir"' and two harmless compiler warnings.
Comment by Anonymous Submitter - Tuesday, 05 July 2011, 04:41 GMT
I don't know whether there are any short-comings as such, but simply running hd2u's 'dos2unix *' will convert any unix line endings to dos line endings. I detected this when dos2unix was called by a third party script (xman_dos2unix.sh). Also the sourceforge.net implementation supports different iso codepages and encodings.

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