Hi, I think this is a wonderful looking tool, and I would be willing to sponsor this. Can you upload it to mentors.debian.net?
Regards, Stephan On Wed, 30 Mar 2022, 03:39 Blake Lee, <bl...@volian.org> wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Blake Lee <bl...@volian.org> > X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-de...@lists.debian.org > > * Package name : nala > Version : 0.7.1 > Upstream Author : Blake Lee <bl...@volian.org> > * URL : https://gitlab.com/volian/nala > * License : GPLv3+ > Programming Lang: Python > Description : commandline frontend for the apt package manager > > nala is a frontend for the apt package manager. It has a lot > of the same functionality, but formats the output to be more > human readable. Also implements a history function to see past > transactions and undo/redo them. Much like Fedora's dnf history. > > This package is useful because it improves the UX of managing packages > through the command line with python3-apt. Additionally provides some > extra quality of life features such as a transaction history you can > interact with. I use nala daily, as do many others. Similar packages > include apt and aptitude. Nala improves upon the hardwork of the apt > team by formatting the output in a more readable manner. > > At the moment I maintain this program on our GitLab. That is where we > accept bug reports and feature requests. I don't have any problems > accepting bug reports from Debian's system, or emails for that matter. > I regularly accept bug reports from our GitHub as well. > > We currently have support for the German language, and I have someone > working on a Spanish po file as well. > > Nala is still in active development, but it is very usable. I've had > many people ask me about getting this into the Official Debian repos so > this is my request for that. > > I assume that I would be in need of a sponser considering I've never > uploaded anything into a Debian repository. But I did try my best to > make the debian files proper, and I personally use sbuild for building > the software. > > In case it is required I do have our repo already mirrored into debian > salse https://salsa.debian.org/volian-team/nala > > My users would be thrilled to hear this makes it into the official > repositories. I'm looking forward to your response. > >
