[Pkg-running-devel] Garming plugin packages in Debian?

[Ralf Treinen]

Hi Andreas,

On Sun, Jul 08, 2012 at 03:50:38PM +0200, Andreas Diesner wrote:

> I removed the dependency to openssl. It was only needed to calculate MD5
> sums. The MD5 sum calculation has been replaced by code that is under GPL2
> or later. See subdirectory md5:
> https://github.com/adiesner/GarminPlugin/tree/master/src/md5

Thanks a lot for that rapid solution. This would indeed solve the problem.
However, it might also be worth looking into using the libgcrypt11 library:

  Description-en: LGPL Crypto library - runtime library
   libgcrypt contains cryptographic functions.  Many important free
   ciphers, hash algorithms and public key signing algorithms have been
   implemented: [...]

Using a library would be preferable to including a custom-copy of
the md5 code, in particular when it is for security-sensitive stuff
like cryptographic hash functions.

> I have tested the functionality and build it on Launchpad. Everything seems
> fine and working so far. I did not yet attach a version label to the new
> version - but I will if you want to start creating a debian package.

yes that would indeed be useful for me as I am now working on the debian
package. Would this also mean that there is a web page with tarballs
of all available versions ? This would be useful for the debian tool that
checks for newly available upstream versions (uscan).

(BTW, the link "All source tar.gz downloads" on the garminplugin
home page leads to a page without any links to tarballs).

Cheers -Ralf.
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Ralf Treinen
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