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[needs-packaging] Please add Xidel package

Bug #1613284 reported by Benito van der Zander on 2016-08-15

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Debian	New	Unknown	debbugs #826763
	Ubuntu	Incomplete	Wishlist	Unassigned

Bug Description

Xidel is a command line tool to query data from HTML/XML web pages, JSON-APIs and local files.
It implements interpreters for XPath 2, XPath 3, XQuery 1, XQuery 3, JSONiq, CSS selectors and custom pattern matching.
XPath and CSS selectors are the most efficient way to select certain elements from XML/HTML documents JSONiq (with custom extensions) is an easy way to select data from JSON.
XQuery is a Turing-complete superset of XPath and allows arbitrary data transformations and the creation of new documents.
Pattern matching is for XML/HTML documents what regular expressions are for plaintext, i.e. pattern matching behaves like a regular expression over the space of tags, instead over the space of characters.
Xidel implements a kind of internal pipes to pipe HTTP requests from
one query to the next, so there is no need to distinguish selecting links and
downloading the data referenced by them. Therefore arbitrary complex queries going
over arbitrary many pages can be executed with a single call of Xidel.

URL: http://www.videlibri.de/xidel.html
Source: https://sourceforge.net/projects/videlibri/files/Xidel/Xidel%200.9.4/xidel-0.9.4.src.tar.gz
License: GPLv2
Notes: There are .deb at https://sourceforge.net/projects/videlibri/files/Xidel/Xidel%200.9.4/ that should satisfy all constraints. It is written in FreePascal. (There are project files for the Lazarus IDE, but it compiles with FreePascal alone)
WNPP: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=826763

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Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2016-08-15

Changed in debian:
status:	Unknown → New

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote on 2016-08-15:

*** This is an automated message ***

This bug is tagged needs-packaging which identifies it as a request for a new package in Ubuntu. As a part of the managing needs-packaging bug reports specification, https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Specs/NeedsPackagingBugs, all needs-packaging bug reports have Wishlist importance. Subsequently, I'm setting this bug's status to Wishlist.

summary:	- Please add Xidel package + [needs-packaging] Please add Xidel package
Changed in ubuntu:
importance:	Undecided → Wishlist

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2016-12-06:

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in ubuntu:
status:	New → Confirmed

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Iain Lane (laney) wrote on 2018-04-05:

(cleaning up ~ubuntu-release bugs)

Sorry nobody has replied for a long time. I'm not sure what this request is for - could you please clarify? It looks like it's to sync a package from Debian, but it's not yet uploaded there - maybe try in #debian-mentors on IRC?

I don't think there's anything for the release team to do here at the minute: I'm unsubscribing the team. If you would like sponsorship, please upload the package to this bug and subscribe the ubuntu-sponsors team.

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Iain Lane (laney) wrote on 2018-04-05:

(And reset the status to 'New')

Thanks!

Changed in ubuntu:
status:	Confirmed → Incomplete

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Benito van der Zander (benibela) wrote on 2018-04-05:

>I'm not sure what this request is for - could you please clarify? It looks like it's to sync a package from Debian, but it's not yet uploaded there - maybe try in #debian-mentors on IRC?

A request to upload/sponsor the Xidel package to Ubuntu. Or sync it if Debian was quicker than it was

> please upload the package to this bug and subscribe the ubuntu-sponsors team.

I had uploaded the package on Sourceforge. Since the bug is so old, there are new packages now:

amd64: https://sourceforge.net/projects/videlibri/files/Xidel/Xidel%200.9.8/xidel_0.9.8-1_amd64.deb/download

i386: https://sourceforge.net/projects/videlibri/files/Xidel/Xidel%200.9.8/xidel_0.9.8-1_i386.deb/download

source tarball: https://sourceforge.net/projects/videlibri/files/Xidel/Xidel%200.9.8/xidel-0.9.8.src.tar.gz/download

I do not know if anything else is required.

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Jeremy Bícha (jbicha) wrote on 2018-04-07:

You don't need to provide the actual .deb's but the debian/ directory. You can attach that as a either a tarball or point to a version control system (like a git repo).

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Benito van der Zander (benibela) wrote on 2018-04-08:

xidel-0.9.8.src.tar.gz Edit (1.8 MiB, application/x-tar)

It is in the attached tarball, xidel-0.9.8-src/programs/internet/xidel/meta/debian

I have two shell scripts there, build.sh to compile it, and build.deb.sh to call dpkg-deb on it afterwards

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Simon Quigley (tsimonq2) wrote on 2018-04-15:

Please include a standard package, so one that doesn't require extra scripts to be ran in order to build the package (which I believe is against Debian Policy; but at minimum it's against best practice).