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Bug#1063880: marked as done (ITP: tmpwatch -- tmpwatch is a utility searches for files not accessed in a specific time and deletes them)

Your message dated Wed, 14 Feb 2024 06:18:55 -0600
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and subject line Re: Bug#1063880: ITP: tmpwatch -- tmpwatch is a utility searches for files not accessed in a specific time and deletes them
has caused the Debian Bug report #1063880,
regarding ITP: tmpwatch -- tmpwatch is a utility searches for files not accessed in a specific time and deletes them
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Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Peter Hyman <pete@peterhyman.com>
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org

* Package name : tmpwatch
Version : 2.12
* Upstream Contact: Peter Hyman <pete@peterhyman.com>
URL : https://github.com/pete4abw/tmpwatch
* License : GPL
Programming Lang: C
Description : tmpwatch is a utility searches for files not accessed in a
specific time and deletes them

The tmpwatch utility recursively searches through specified directories and
removes files which have not been accessed in a specified period of time.
tmpwatch is normally used to clean up directories which are used for
temporarily holding files (for example, /tmp).

- While Debian removes files in the /tmp directory, other files may have
temporary files that needs to be cleaned periodically. tmpwatch is ideally used 
as a cron-job.
- how do you plan to maintain it?
tmpwatch has not had any activity for over 5 years. Originally written by
Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>, Preston Brown <pbrown@redhat.com>, Mike A. Harris <mharris@redhat.com>, Miloslav Trmač <mitr@redhat.com>, I have forked off and 
added some enhancements.

However, packaging for Debian has been challenging since the autogen I wrote
fetches a submodule which creates lots of files not in the source package. I
would need a mentor to help me get this off the ground.
Original project URL is at the Fedora project page: https://pagure.io/tmpwatch 

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Peter Hyman

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On 2/14/24 01:04, Michael Biebl wrote:
development has been discontinued, as systemd-tmpfiles already implements this kind of functionality.
We also already have tmpreaper in the archive which basically does the same thing as tmpwatch.
I do understand. tmpwatch plays a role when there are userland directories that could use cleaning. For example, a userland Trash Can which might be used for deleted files when Dolphin/Nautilus are not used, 

Closing.

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Peter Hyman

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