Bug#738850: ITP: iniparser -- a stand-alone INI file reading/writing library

[Klee Dienes <klee@mit.edu>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Klee Dienes <klee@mit.edu>

* Package name    : iniparser
  Version         : 3.1-1
  Upstream Author : Nicolas Devillard <ndevilla@free.fr>
* URL             : http://ndevilla.free.fr/iniparser
* License         : Expat
  Programming Lang: C
  Description     : a stand-alone INI file reading/writing library

The iniParser library is a simple C library offering INI file parsing
services (both reading and writing).

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Note that there have been two previous ITPs posted for iniParser:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=582657
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=678142

There was concern in the discussion for #678142 about:

 1) Lack of a well-formed build/install system (iniParser includes only
    a bare-bones Makefile).

 2) Complexity ("Does anything depend on this, any potential users that
    couldn't use something simpler?")

I have addressed #1 by providing a CMake build environment for use by
the Debian package.

Regarding #2, my goal is to package the psmoveapi code for Debian,
which uses the write support of iniparser (not supported by inih).  I
also note that Samba seems to include an internal version of
iniParser.