Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ole Peder Brandtzæg <ole...@samfundet.no> X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-de...@lists.debian.org
* Package name : libapp-sdview-perl Version : 0.13 Upstream Author : Paul Evans <leon...@leonerd.org.uk> * URL : https://metacpan.org/dist/App-sdview * License : Perl 5 Programming Lang: Perl Description : terminal document viewer for POD and other syntaxes The App::sdview module implements a terminal-based program for viewing structured documents. It currently understands POD, some simple Markdown formatting, and a basic understanding of nroff (for manpages). The accompanying sdview script runs the App::sdview program, which renders a structured document to a terminal output, via the less pager. Why is this package useful/relevant? ==================================== I've found reading the documentation of various Perl modules using sdview to be a very pleasant experience. Obviously, perldoc already exists for this purpose, but the syntax highlighting sdview offers makes for a much better reading experience in my opinion. As the description notes, the support for manpages is quite rudimentary; in my testing, the manpage for ls renders fine, whereas the manpage of man itself does not: ⚘ ~ sdview man Expected (?^u:\ ) in /usr/share/man/man1/man.1.gz on line 1 at: '\" t ^ I'm not sure if the package including such unstable features is a blocker for packaging it; apologies for the noise if so. However, I believe its POD support is the main selling point. How do you plan to maintain it? =============================== This would be my first Debian package, so I would need a sponsor (and most likely a bit of mentoring). The Debian Perl Group seems to be a natural fit for the package, but I would be happy to maintain it on my own or co-maintain it with them/anyone else. libapp-sdview-perl does depend on a few other modules (all by the same upstream author) not presently packaged in Debian, so they would need to be packaged, too, but I figured I should file this first. They are: - Object::Pad::FieldAttr::Checked [0] - Parse::Man [1] - String::Tagged::Markdown [2] All the best, Ole [0]: https://metacpan.org/dist/Object-Pad-FieldAttr-Checked [1]: https://metacpan.org/dist/Parse-Man [2]: https://metacpan.org/dist/String-Tagged-Markdown
