Hello, I plan to package libmimelib 1.1.2 for debian/unstable. Until now this has been built/provided by kdepim from kde3, but as part of the kde4 transition kdepim3 has been removed from debian/unstable. Still lurker depends on libmimelib1c2a, and migrating to libmimelib4 is not an option as it would introduce tons of kdelibs dependencies that lurker doesn't need at all.
So I copied kdepim-3.5.9/mimelib/ from the kdepim 3.5.9-5 source package in order to build a standalone source package from it. Now I've one problem: kde developers have patched mimelib heavily since it has been added to kdepim, and one of the changes is to use strlcpy/strlcat at some places. Unfortunately, strlcpy/strlcat seems not to be available on a standard linux system. Only stncpy/strncat and strcpy/strcat are. The original standalone mimelib used strcpy/strcat, but mimelib is in fact unmaintained upstream since 1997, so there is no real upstream version available. Instead I found more than five different patched versions of mimelib in the web, all of them differing a lot. I would like to package the kdepim 3.5.9 version of mimelib. So what to do? As far as I understand, there are three possibilities: - patch mimelib from kdepim to use strcpy/strcat again, but I guess this is not a good idea as strcpy/strcat seem to be insecure. - patch mimelib from kdepim to use strncpy/strncat instead of strlcpy/strlcat. - define strlcpy/strlcat in a custom header file and include that one where appropriate. I don't know enough about this topic to make a decision on my own. Thus I ask you for advice. greetings, jonas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
