Hi,
Am Dienstag, den 10.11.2009, 18:36 +0300 schrieb Paul Antonov:
> as some of you might know, I’m looking at what has to be done to get
> Serna into Debian.
>
> At the moment, Serna ships its own copy of jade/libsp, with some
> extensions to the interface. Such convenience copies of code are
> strongly discouraged in Debian, as they make security support et. al. a
> tedious task. Therefore, Serna should aim to run with the stock libsp as
> provided on Debian.
>
> Are the changes to libsp useful for the general public? If yes, did you
> submit them to the libsp authors? If no, is there a way to move the
> extended functionality out of the libsp copy, and into serna?
>
> Serna uses only libsp, not jade. The changes are few, but they need
> patching the code (such patches include support for Russian KOI
> encodings, UTF-16, added hooks for possibility of external entity
> managers, etc.) If you can point to the original distribution of libsp
> which Debian uses, we may try to sumbit these changes to them.
good question. The last upstream version merged into Debian was from
1998 – does jade still have a proper, central upstream, or is that dead
and development only happens as distribution-specific patches?
Anyways, I’m CC’ing Neil Roeth, who maintains the jade (and libsp)
package in Debian. Paul, are your patches available easily somewhere, so
that Neil can review them and possibly apply them to the Debian version
of libsp?