[Bug 1613284] Re: [needs-packaging] Please add Xidel package

[Benito van der Zander]

>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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Title:
  [needs-packaging] Please add Xidel package

Status in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete
Status in Debian:
  New

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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