Bug#146456: reopening #146456: ITP for opensrs (libopensrs-perl is only perl client)
On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 12:41:19AM +0000, Jonathan McDowell wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 04:27:13PM -0800, ivan wrote:
> > reopen 146456
> > thanks
> >
> > Reopening ITP - libopensrs-perl contain only the perl library portion of
> > OpenSRS, not the full client web interface.
> >
> > Jonathan, do you intend to package the full client? If so, please feel
> > to take over the ITP. I'd still like to help if welcome. If you don't
> > intend to package the full client, I will plan to do so soon.
>
> I haven't packaged the full client partly because I don't use it (my
> company uses the client library but with our own front end) and partly
> because I wasn't sure if there was demand for the client bit; it seems
> like it could be tricky to have generic enough to be worthwhile in
> Debian.
>
> However I specifically uploaded the source package with the
> opensrs-client name so that there was the easy potential to add extra
> packages containing other bits of the OpenSRS code if there was demand.
> There's absolutely no point in another source package with the same code
> it in,
Agreed.
> so I'm happy for you to submit patches to add a client code
> package,
It isn't the first thing on my plate, but I should have time to work on
it sometime this year.
--
_ivan
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