my ITP of dcc -- Distributed Checksum Clearinghouse

[Bas Zoetekouw <bas@o2w.nl>]

Hi guys!

I don't seem to have enough free time to finish packaging dcc.  If
anyone is interested in taking over the ITP, please contact me.  

Be warned though, that this is not very easy to package:  the build
process is non-standard, the package installs files all over the place,
it requires some patching to be able to run as an ordinary user, and
from the docs it's not really clear what each binary exactly does, nor
which config files it wants read or write access to.  This is not a "my
first package" package.  It would probably be best if the person to take
this, has (unlike me) used dcc before.

There are some halfway done packages available at
http://people.debian.org/~bas/dcc/.

Oh, a reminder of what DCC is:

 The Distributed Checksum Clearinghouse or DCC is a cooperative,
 distributed system intended to detect "bulk" mail or mail sent to many
 people.  It allows individuals receiving a single mail message to
 determine that many other people have been sent essentially identical
 copies of the message and so reject the message.

Upstream is Vernon Schryver <vjs@rhyolite.com> (haven't contacted him
yet); there seems to be a lot of active devlopment going on.  Homepage
is http://www.rhyolite.com/anti-spam/dcc/.  Licence is BSD without
advertising clause.

-- 
Kind regards,
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| Bas Zoetekouw                  | Si l'on sait exactement ce   |
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| bas@o2w.nl, bas@debian.org     | bon le faire?                |
| GPG key: 0644fab7              |               Pablo Picasso  |
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