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

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On 11-04-17 at 12:01pm, Emmanuel Bouthenot wrote:
> 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.

I also intended to get in touch with you.  Great that you take the lead 
here!


> > 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.

I tried to locate the canonical source for libsombok and I believe I 
figured out that it is in fact a new name for liblinebreak which is 
already packaged for Debian.

But when I contacted the Debian maintainer for liblinebreak about 
upgrading that package to libsombok he judged it as completely 
independent projects just with similar names.

Details at http://bugs.debian.org/616540

Can someone please double-check if I or Eugene is right there?

And if Eugene is right, can someone please help locate the canonical 
source for libsombok?


> 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.

I see no reason to change numbering scheme.  Would be nice with a 
simpler scheme, but Debian is flexible enough to work around that: not a 
show-stopper.


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

I can handle libsombok too, if that's relevant.  I just really want to 
make sure we are not packaging same project twice.


 - Jonas

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