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
>
>
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