Bug#535828: Jade changed

[Neil Roeth <neil@debian.org>]

On Nov 10, Paul Antonov (apg@syntext.com) wrote:
 > Joachim,
 > 
 > I'll try to make svn diff's to obtain the patches and send them to you.
 > 
 > Regards,
 > 
 > -- Paul
 > 
 > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 6:43 PM, Joachim Breitner <nomeata@debian.org>wrote:
 > 
 > > Hi,
 > >
 > > Am Dienstag, den 10.11.2009, 18:36 +0300 schrieb Paul Antonov:
 > > > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 6:20 PM, Joachim Breitner <nomeata@debian.org>
 > > wrote:
 > > >         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?
 > >
 > > Thanks,
 > > Joachim
 > >

Thanks for bringing me into this.  The original Jade package was forked and
made into two separate packages, OpenJade and OpenSP.  This was done outside
of Debian, but both are also in Debian and also maintained by me.  So, we
should use OpenSP.  I am planning to remove Jade from Debian when I get around
to it, AFAIK, there is nothing it does that OpenJade and OpenSP cannot do.


-- 
Neil Roeth