-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello monotone developers
My fellow Debian developer Elrond had a suggestion regarding the sqlite code modification that is part of the monotone source distribution. Elrond wrote: > On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 12:13:05AM +0200, Tomas Fasth wrote: > [...] > >>I want monotone to use the shared libraries of sqlite, popt, lua, >>etc as distributed with Debian. > > > Good! > > Until then, I'd suggest, you let the security team know, > that your package has local versions due to above mentioned > reasoning. So they can decide, what to do, if and when > those packages have issues. Quick note: This is an example of what a package maintainer have to deal with when upstream is linking an application against their own versions of libraries which are also available as shared objects in the same distribution. > Some time after filing the bug, I finally found out some > details of the local changes, and I have some possible > ideas to get them done in other ways: > > * sqlite: As I understand, there's only an addition. > - It might be put in an extra .c, so that it's only used in > monotone. > - The code using it might be rewritten to use a loop with > sqlite3_prepare > (It's not faster than sqlite3_exec, as that uses the > former.) Is Elrond's suggestion an acceptable solution? > Of course, the sqlite changes should be proposed to > upstream for inclusion. > > >>But it is not currently possible >>according to upstream. I should have mentioned this in more detail >>in the changelog, so thanks for pointing this out. > > > Yep, that would have been helpful. > > Maybe better put this into a README.Debian or TODO.Debian. > > (while there: /usr/share/doc/monotone/README currently does > not give any vital information to the user, really) > > > Elrond - -- Tomas Fasth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG KeyId: 0x9FE8D504 Fingerprint: DC7B 9453 7F26 1BF9 6B21 9F90 C187 7355 9FE8 D504 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFC5hY6wYdzVZ/o1QQRAn8vAJ9Pc5YuQH7e1lYa001X0+qTnrTGqgCeLFTI dIsrDj6VbD0pfRru/wb5r7s= =L8Es -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
