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Bug#438683: ITP: libconfig -- simple library for manipulating structured configuration files



Hi Abraham,

At 1187477920 time_t, Julien Danjou wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
> 
> * Package name    : libconfig
>   Version         : 1.1.3
>   Upstream Author : Mark Lindner
> * URL             : http://www.hyperrealm.com/libconfig/libconfig.html
> * License         : LGPL
>   Programming Lang: C, C++
>   Description     : simple library for manipulating structured configuration files
> 
> 
> libconfig is a simple library for manipulating structured configuration
> files. The file format is more compact and more readable than XML. And
> unlike XML, it is type-aware, so it is not necessary to do string
> parsing in application code.
> The library includes bindings for both the C and C++ languages. It works
> on POSIX-compliant UNIX systems (GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, FreeBSD)
> and Windows (2000, XP and later).
> 
> 
> Currently there's already a libconfig in Debian, that seems unmaintained
> and not used.
> 
> I don't know yet what I'm going to do ; maybe ask the maintainers if he
> thinks we can remove it.

Do you think libconfig is still useful in Debian?
It does not seem to be used nor really developed.
Can we ask it for removal and replace it with a new libconfig, see above?

Cheers,
-- 
Julien Danjou
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