[Pkg-sympa-devel] libunicode-linebreak-perl packaging

[Emmanuel Bouthenot]

Hi,

On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 12:53:00PM +0900, Hatuka*nezumi - IKEDA Soji wrote:

> I am the author of Unicode-LineBreak.  I wrote packaging information
> for libunicode-linebreak-perl package.
I planned to contact you in the coming days but you were quicker than me.

What do you mean by “I wrote packaging information libunicode-linebreak-perl
package” and/or where do you wrote it?

> I am not familiar with maintainance work on Debian project.  Would
> you please tell me what should I do this package to be maintained
> as a part of Debian project?
It seems that Unicode-LineBreak depends on a C library named sombok.

If we want to get Unicode-LineBreak into Debian, we first need to
package libsombok.

I've already tried to compile sombok-2011.5RC, sombok-2011.4,
sombok-2011.3 and at a first glance you seem to be aware of SONAME
handling (that's very important for us, some upstreams are not).

It should be very straight forward to package it.

The only point that makes me dubious is the version numbering of the
releases[1]: sombok-2011.5RC, sombok-2011.4, ...
Any plan to use classical version names ? like 0.1.2, 3.4.1, etc. ?
It will be easier for the packagers, the automated tools and the users to
understand what a new version means.

What do you think?

I'm willing to take care of sombok in Debian, and Jonas agreed to take
care of Unicode-LineBreak once libsombok will be available.


Regards,

[1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/linefold/files/sombok/

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