Well, as people might recall, I once upon a time made a small shell script that would automate the recovery of the lock code, and posted it in this forum thread.

Tonight I finally got around to (read: was hit by an obscene burst of motivation, sacrificing hours of sleep just to try to make this work, for some inexplicable reason) trying to put it in the repositories.

And I must say - trying to package a single simple shell script and a single text file (the sudoers one) that doesn't need any compiling or makefile-ing or anything, is one of the most infuriating things I had had to deal with in recent memory. Why the frak is it so frakking hard for the whole process from dpkg-buildpackage to the autobuilder to simply get that all it needs to do is wrap up the existing files in a simple .deb, without any running of makefiles, etc.

Okay, sure, maybe I'm misusing the autobuilder by giving it a package that doesn't need any building. Sue me. I like using the extras assistant instead of uploading packages by ssh or whatever.

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Anyway, it's in the repository now. Before it's ready to be pushed down to extras-testing for testing/voting/promotion-to-extras, I still need to give it an icon, give it a bug tracker link (which is preceded by opening a garage page for it), and figuring out more concretely if the 'Architecture' needs to be 'Any' or 'All' in the debian/control file, but on that latter point it seems to work either way, so doesn't really matter (Edit: double-checked debian documentation, the original "All" I had it set to was correct). But once that's done (hopefully not too far into the future), I'll go ahead and promote it (which would drag John The Ripper package down with it, hopefully..., though that might have blockers to promotion on it). Now I spent about 6 of my available 7 sleeping hours tonight on getting this up (okay, a little bit of that was posting here, but mostly it was from getting it uploaded to extras-devel), so that is all. Tomorrow I will make a proper announce thread for this package, I just wanted to mention it on the thread where it is already most relevant.