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Hello, everybody! I'm the upstream and current maintainer for nsnake (a ncurses clone of the snake game) and would like to know your opinion on this packaging matter. I was in need of a library that helped storing per-user configuration files on that game. So I started using libiniparser[0] on the hope that it would make the game portable across most distros. Unfortunately, it was only after nsnake's 2.0.0 release that I realized it wasn't available on Debian. (and probably won't be at all[1]) This ends up preventing me from updating the package on Debian. So could you guys recommend any configuration-file parsing library that's both maintainer-friendly and portable across distros? Of course I may be over-thinking this - I considered simply bundling inih[2] to my code (rougly 100 lines of C code), just like owncloud[3] and dunst[4] both did. But the Fedora guys advised me against that[5], since they're very strict on "no bundled libraries". I guess I could simply hard-code a parser for config files, but it seems as kind of a bad practice... Hopefully I'm wrong and you guys could shed a light on this problem. Thank you all for the attention, Alexandre Dantas [0]: http://ndevilla.free.fr/iniparser/ [1]: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=582657#10 [2]: https://code.google.com/p/inih/ [3]: https://open.cryptomilk.org/issues/5 [4]: https://github.com/knopwob/dunst/issues/12 [5]: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1075154#c2 |