Bug#846342: ITP: capstone -- lightweight multi-architecture disassembly framework

[bobby.prani@gmail.com (Pranith Kumar)]

On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 4:03 AM, Hilko Bengen <bengen at debian.org> wrote:
> * Pranith Kumar:
>
>> The library is backward compatible. No API changes were made, so I
>> think none of them should be affected.
>
> Reading through my mail backlog, I was surprised to learn that Capstone
> 4 might have been released, but there is no such release. At
> https://github.com/aquynh/capstone/, the latest version I see is 4.0alpha3,
> tagged in July.

Yes, I want to package the alpha version for debian-experimental.

>
> I expect the capstone 4 library to come with a different SONAME, so it
> won't be possible to use it as a drop-in replacement.
>
> In any case, I propose that pkg-security-team adopt the capstone
> package. There is still the outstanding Python3 bindings issue that I'd
> like to see closed before the freeze.
>

We are maintaining capstone as part of pkg-security-team. I just
updated the git repository fixing the python3 bindings. I will look
for a sponsor for this package.

Thanks,
-- 
Pranith