On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 20:43:12 +0000 Bradley Smith <bradsm...@debian.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 18:32:08 +0000 > Neil Williams <codeh...@debian.org> wrote: > > > OK, I've had a look at 3.0.0 and the news is truly appalling - this > > has to be the worst upstream release I have ever had the misfortune > > to encounter. > > > > I don't think 3.0.0 is going to hit Debian any time soon - either in > > experimental or unstable. The package has changed radically in this > > release, large parts of the build system have become brain-dead and > > non-configurable. Entire sections of the package have disappeared > > (notably sqlite support) and the build system is simply not sane any > > more. > > > I've just had a look at it myself and I agree it's quite a mess, which > seems a shame. Might it be worth recreating an autotools build system > for it, and patching it in? I'm certainly willing to help with this > if needed, since it seems a shame to remove it. Umm, have a closer look. ;-) The horror gets worse - the current soci CVS (according to SF) appears to retain a fully working autotools build system, with the other changes. BUT - and this is a biggy - I use SF a lot and my other VCS systems at SF continue to work, but anonymous CVS checkout fails completely. debcheckout did used to work for soci, I remember testing it. It no longer works. Something has been broken in the upstream configuration at SF, which is restricted to current admins for the project. So, we're stuck with upstream after all. If there are to be efforts to get soci 3.0.1 into Debian, upstream is where things need to start. Someone upstream appears to have had a bad time with autotools and has tried to reinvent the wheel. Ugly. All the necessary URL's are available in the package and in the PTS. It stinks, I know, but screen-scraping 600Kb of data from a web based VCS interface is not a good use of either my time or yours. Besides, a patch set that size scares me almost as much as the work required to fix the current mess. -- Neil Williams <codeh...@debian.org>
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