Bug#846342: ITP: capstone -- lightweight multi-architecture disassembly framework

Pranith Kumar bobby.prani at gmail.com
Fri Dec 2 22:45:20 UTC 2016


Hello Raphael,

On Fri, Dec 2, 2016 at 3:53 AM, Raphael Hertzog <hertzog at debian.org> wrote:
> Hello Pranith,
>
> On Wed, 30 Nov 2016, Pranith Kumar wrote:
>> Package: wnpp
>>
>> * Package name    : capstone
>>   Version         : 4.0
>>   Upstream Author : Nguyen Anh Quynh <aquynh at gmail.com>
>> * URL             : http://www.capstone-engine.org/
>
> it looks like you are a bit confused. capstone is already in Debian
> so there is no need to file an "ITP" (Intent To Package). I saw
> that your already converted the "O" (Orphaned) bug into a "ITA" (Intent to
> Adopt) bug (#843440) and that you already made a sponsorship request
> (#846348).
>
>> Capstone is a disassembly framework with the target of becoming the ultimate
>> disasm engine for binary analysis and reversing in the security community.
>
> I would like to suggest you to join the pkg-security team and maintain
> that package in the team's git repository. We have sponsors for your
> updated package in the team.
>
> Please have a look at https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/pkg-security
> and request to join the team on
> https://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-security
>
> Subscribe to the mailing list and feel free to ask any question on the
> list.
>
> Have you checked whether capstone 4 breaks reverse dependencies?
>

apt-rdepends shows nothing, so I guess it is all fine.

I joined the pkg-security team now. How do I upload to the git
repository? Could you please point me to any documentation?

Thanks,
-- 
Pranith



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