Joachim, I'll try to make svn diff's to obtain the patches and send them to you.
Regards, -- Paul On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 6:43 PM, Joachim Breitner <nome...@debian.org>wrote: > Hi, > > Am Dienstag, den 10.11.2009, 18:36 +0300 schrieb Paul Antonov: > > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 6:20 PM, Joachim Breitner <nome...@debian.org> > wrote: > > as some of you might know, I’m looking at what has to be done to > get > > Serna into Debian. > > > > At the moment, Serna ships its own copy of jade/libsp, with some > > extensions to the interface. Such convenience copies of code are > > strongly discouraged in Debian, as they make security support et. > al. a > > tedious task. Therefore, Serna should aim to run with the stock > libsp as > > provided on Debian. > > > > Are the changes to libsp useful for the general public? If yes, > did you > > submit them to the libsp authors? If no, is there a way to move > the > > extended functionality out of the libsp copy, and into serna? > > > > Serna uses only libsp, not jade. The changes are few, but they need > > patching the code (such patches include support for Russian KOI > > encodings, UTF-16, added hooks for possibility of external entity > > managers, etc.) If you can point to the original distribution of libsp > > which Debian uses, we may try to sumbit these changes to them. > > good question. The last upstream version merged into Debian was from > 1998 – does jade still have a proper, central upstream, or is that dead > and development only happens as distribution-specific patches? > > Anyways, I’m CC’ing Neil Roeth, who maintains the jade (and libsp) > package in Debian. Paul, are your patches available easily somewhere, so > that Neil can review them and possibly apply them to the Debian version > of libsp? > > Thanks, > Joachim > > > -- > Joachim "nomeata" Breitner > Debian Developer > nome...@debian.org | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: 4743206C > JID: nome...@joachim-breitner.de | > http://people.debian.org/~nomeata<http://people.debian.org/%7Enomeata> >