Hi Cyril, On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 04:36:52PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > I request assistance with maintaining the graphviz package. That might > also move to an RFA later on. I'm interested in helping out with this package and possibly taken over maintenance if you eventually decide to give it up entirely. However, I'm pretty short of time currently, so I do not expect to find some / much time for this until the end of September. So, if anybody else is interested as well, by all means, don't hesitate to beat me to it. Of course, I'm also open for team-maintaining the package. > Given I'm slowly drifting to more porting, I'm currently lacking time to > maintain graphviz properly. If you're interested, you may want to be > aware of some points: > - Upstream is very nice, but now ships a bundled debian/ directory in > its tarball, and will continue to do so. Repacking is/will be needed. I assume, you've already talked to upstream about that, right? What's their reason to do so? > - There are libraries, with different sonames, and plugins. I guess > there's very little point in splitting the current libgraphviz4 > library in more libraries (given it only has 3 rdeps last I checked) > but you'll need to understand the library packaging issues here, and > try hard not to break anything. Upstreams seems to use two different SONAME versions only - one for all libraries and one for the plugins. That does not sound right to me on a first glance. Did you talk to upstream about that? Do you have any further information? If that changes at some time in the future, I'm not sure if it'll still make sense to ship a single libgraphviz4 package only but until then that sounds perfectly reasonable to me ;-) > - There are bindings for several languages, and some bugs open against > them. These bindings were requested presumably for Ubuntu, and given > that some aren't really used, or buggy, it might make sense to drop > some. Note that obviously, upstream doesn't know how to use each of > them, given they're swig-generated. Did you talk to any Ubuntu guys about that? Not that I really care much as long as they do not approach me but I would not want to "destroy" anything either. Cheers, Sebastian -- Sebastian "tokkee" Harl +++ GnuPG-ID: 0x8501C7FC +++ http://tokkee.org/ Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. -- Benjamin Franklin
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