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Bug#679236: O: ckport -- portability analysis and security checking tool



reflum,

On Thu, 2012-06-28 at 12:29 +0200, Thomas Preud'homme wrote:
> Le mercredi 27 juin 2012 12:49:40, vous avez écrit :
> > As it is not fully useless I only orphan it not asking for RM.
> > 
> > The package itself is in good shape. Upstream development is not affected
> > by this. I hope the package will find a new home. I will gladly help a new
> > maintainer as needed.
> 
> However there was no new upstream release for one year when previous releases 
> were made every other month approximately. Is upstream development still going 
> on?

Sure. It was slown down because of other work, mostly including the now
useless work for the Debian RoarAudio packages.
I think there will be an upstream release before end of freeze.

> > The package description is:
> >  ckport is a tool to check already compiled binaries and libraries for
> > porting and security problems.
> >  .
> >  It uses objdump to read the binaries and analyses calls and jumps to
> > functions. .
> >  This package is architecture independent and can be used on non-host
> >  architecture binaries if an objdump tool for the target architecture
> >  is installed.
> 
> I've just discovered this package with this orphaning message and I find it 
> very interesting. I'm thus interested to maintain or co-maintain it, but due 
> to personal business right now, I will not adopt it before september. So if 
> someone else is interested in this package fell free to adopt it and I will 
> join in later.

Thank you for your interest.
Maybe the-me (currently the co maintainer) is willing to keep it untill
September. He is currently hard to reach. But I don't think it is urgent
at the moment anyway.

Again thank you for your interested and time :)

-- 
Philipp.
 (Rah of PH2)

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