Bug#431465: ITP: libsvg -- library for parsing SVG files

[Dave Beckett <dave@dajobe.org>]

Rene Engelhard wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org>
> 
> * Package name    : libsvg
>   Version         : 0.1.4
>   Upstream Author : Carl Worth <cworth@isi.edu>
> * URL             : http://cairographics.org/snapshots/
> * License         : LGPL
>   Programming Lang: C
>   Description     : library for parsing SVG files
> 
>  libsvg provides a parser for SVG content in files or buffers.
> 
> The last upstream release was in 2005, though and it's still only
> under snapshots/, so it seems quite dead upstream. OOo will in the
> future most probably use it for svg import, though...
> (http://svn.gnome.org/viewcvs/ooo-build/trunk/patches/src680/svg-import.diff?revision=9660&view=markup)
> 
> If anyone else than me wants to maintain this (Dave?), be welcome to
> take this ITP :-)

libsvg is dead upstream and not supported, not under development.
I talked to Carl today and he was surprised OOo was using it.

librsvg is something that is supported, maybe you can get them to use that..
Otherwise, you become the maintainer of libsvg :)

Dave