libSpiff packaging request

[Sebastian Pipping]

Hello Adeodato, Clint, Peter!


Sebastian here, junior Xiph member and developer of
libSpiff [1], Xiph's implementation of XSPF, the
XML Sharable Playlist Format.

I am writing you because libSpiff is not found in
any Debian-based distro. The longterm plan is to
have Herrie [2], libSpiff and uriparser [3] in Debian.
Herrie is a console audio player depending on
libSpiff which itself depends on uriparser,
my RFC 3986 URI parsing library.

I already started with the package for uriparser
but I am neither a Debian nor a Unix expert.
So what I am here for is to ask if you could help
me with making sane packages for these projects
and sponsor/maintain them for Debian and if
possible for Ubuntu as well.


What I did for the uriparser package so far reads
like this:

(01) $ wget
"http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/uriparser/uriparser-0.5.2.tar.gz"
(02) $ tar xf uriparser-0.5.2.tar.gz
(03) $ mv uriparser-0.5.2.tar.gz uriparser-0.5.2.orig.tar.gz
(04) $ cd uriparser-0.5.2.tar
(05) $ dh_make --library
(06) $ nano debian/control
(07) $ nano debian/copyright
(08) $ nano debian/rules
(09) $ nano debian/uriparser-dev.install
(10) $ dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc
(11) $ tar czf uriparser_0.5.2_debian_base.tar.gz \
        debian/control debian/copyright debian/rules \
        debian/uriparser-dev.install

Output of (11) is attached to this mail. uriparser 0.5.2 still
has soname 0:0:0, version 0.5.3 will have a proper soname starting
from 1:0:0 - that's why I called the package "uriparser1".
Very same with libSpiff. Would be very cool to have Debian
packages go along with future releases.

Best regards,



Sebastian



[1] http://libspiff.sourceforge.net/
[2] http://herrie.info/
[3] http://uriparser.sourceforge.net/

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