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

[Micah Anderson]

Jérémy Bobbio <lunar at debian.org> writes:

> On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 12:54:16PM -0400, Micah Anderson wrote:
>> 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. 
>> 
>> Jérémy, perhaps you could describe what is involved here?
>
> The lib/ directory in silc-client tarball has almost all files present
> in the lib/ directory of silc-toolkit.  So new releases of silc-client
> should be up-to-date.

Aha, thats exactly what the pointer I was looking for, thanks, I didn't
find this on my own.

> But, whenever a bug is fixed in a new release of silc-toolkit that
> affects the client without a new release of silc-client (which did
> happen from time to time), the differences must be applied manually to
> silc-client in order to get an updated irssi-plugin-silc.

Ok, I've done a recursive diff of the different lib/ directories, and
found:

1. Makefile.am differences which seem to make sense for the different
build situations (i cut these out of the diff)
2. Differences in positioning of the license information, essentially
one specifies the license, the other refers to the licenses referenced
(i've cut these out of the diff)
3. Then some source differences, the second one is clearly related
to the channel key hmac segfault I recently had
4. Some minor assembly changes.

The actual source changes is attached as a diff.

micah

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