Bug#582657: Bug#678142: ITP: libiniparser -- stand-alone ini file parsing library

[Gergely Nagy <algernon@balabit.hu>]

Michael Stapelberg <stapelberg@debian.org> writes:

>> > Nevertheless, I would still like to ask: why? Does anything depend on
>> > this, any potential users that couldn't use something simpler?
>> > (There's another ini parsing library, also in C, in about 100 lines
>> > of code instead of 1500, that does pretty much everything this one
>> > does, and is far less scary.)
> There is a lightweight notification daemon called dunst which depends on
> this. I’m going to file an ITP for that soonish:
> http://knopwob.github.com/dunst/

I see. Wouldn't it be a better idea to replace the iniparser dependency
of dunst with something saner? :)

I'm willing to submit a patch to replace iniparser with inih[1],
anything to keep iniparser out of Debian, as that thing is the poster
child of brokenness.

 [1]: http://code.google.com/p/inih/

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