[Pkg-silc-devel] Current state of SILC in Debian

[Micah Anderson]

* Micah Anderson <micah at riseup.net> [2008-10-07 13:54-0400]:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> After having yet another segfault in my irssi due to the silc plugin, I
> decided that it might be a good idea to look at getting the debugging
> symbols setup so that I can report proper backtraces. In doing so, I
> realized that the versions that we have in Debian are outdated, and that
> there was various things that needed to be done in the Debian SILC
> packaging team. Here is the current state of things, as far as my most
> recent efforts:

I've now added -dbg packages for silc, irssi-plugin-silc, and silcd as
these all have segfaulted on me a number of times and I've had to
rebuild them to get debugging symbols turned on so I could send gdb
backtraces to upstream.

> However, as Jérémy noted[2], silc-client does use an embedded
> copy of the silc library to build irssi-plugin-silc, and if we do
> decide to build and upload a new package with these newer
> sources, we should pull in those silc-toolkit fixes. I'm not sure
> I understand what is involved here, and as a result not
> comfortable doing this. 

I looked around in the silc-client directories to try and identify
exactly which pieces were embedded code copies, but I was not finding
exact copies anywhere, perhaps I am missing something obvious here. 

> Finally, I requested GMANE to gate our pkg-silc-devel and
> pkg-silc-commits lists as I find this service very useful and would
> prefer to read things through there.

These were subscribed, and the groups should show up after messages have
been posted to them (if you see this, then you should be able to get to
the group).

Micah

ps - for some reason, my original post is not in the archives, I'm not
sure if it was distributed or not, or if this one will be? 
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