RFS: jansson (updated package)
Dear mentors,
I am looking for a sponsor for my package "jansson".
* Package name : jansson
Version : 1.2-1
Upstream Author : Petri Lehtinen
* URL : http://www.digip.org/jansson/
* License : MIT
Section : devel
It builds these binary packages:
libjansson-doc - C library for working with JSON data - documentation
libjansson0 - C library for working with JSON data
libjansson0-dev - C library for working with JSON data - development files
The package appears to be lintian clean.
The upload would fix these bugs: 561051
Update: I shortened the package descriptions from the previous
version, as suggested by Ben Finney. Also, the previous RFS mail
wasn't as verbose as this one. See below.
My motivation for maintaining this package is: I am the upstream
author, and would like to see Jansson in Debian to make its users
happy! There are not many C libraries for JSON manipulation in Debian,
in fact I can only see libjson-glib, which depends on glib. Jansson
depends on no external libraries. Moreover, I think Jansson's API is
superior. This should be apparent as I wrote it! :)
This is my first attempted upload to Debian. I tried to follow the
policy manual and library packaging guide as well as possible, and I
also have discussed with some Ubuntu MOTUs about the package. I
decided to go for Debian instead of Ubuntu, as Debian is the ultimate
upstream for many distributions, not just Ubuntu.
My only real concern right now is that should the -dev package be
named libjansson0-dev (as the library packaging guide suggests) or
just libjansson-dev. In the (distant) future, there will be version
2.0 of the library, which is API incompatible, so that would justify
including the SONAME in the -dev package name. OTOH, I don't see many
packages use this convention. Does it only make things complicated?
The package can be found on mentors.debian.net:
- URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/j/jansson
- Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main contrib non-free
- dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/j/jansson/jansson_1.2-1.dsc
I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me.
Kind regards
Petri Lehtinen
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