On Fri, January 4, 2008 16:56, Martin Stigge wrote: > > On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 16:32 +0000, Regis Boudin wrote: >> wmweather+ is one of the 6 packages that build-depend on it, one of the >> two actually using it, the other being amaya which I maintain. >> >> My current plan is to adopt w3c-libwww until it can be removed, so both >> packages will have to find a way to transition away from it. I also plan >> to port amaya to use libcurl, and I would strongly recommend you do the >> same for wmweather+ if you want to keep it in the archive. > > It looks reasonable to get rid of libwww. I'll coordinate with upstream > of wmweather+ regarding this issue.
Great ! :) > It could happen that I have to do the port myself (upstream didn't do > anything for years now, but there were also no serious things to be > done). I'd appreciate if you could tell me your experiences from your > porting efforts. Same here, I will probably be the one contributing the patch upstream, so virtually no experience of porting so far. But after a first look, and according to the previous maintainer, libcurl should be quite easy to use. >> If you have any comment about the libwww status or alternative >> suggestions >> to the situation, please don't hesitate to give them so we can go >> forward. > > What is your plan time-wise for the whole removal-thing to happen? I guess my plan so far sums up as "no libwww in lenny", hopefully by June this will be done. The shorter I have to maintain it, the better. If I ended up finishing to port amaya before your work on wmweather+, I would probably try to help you a bit. Many thanks for your help, Regis
