On 5/18/21, Andrei POPESCU <andreimpope...@gmail.com> wrote: > https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/bitz-server
On 5/18/21, Jörg Frings-Fürst <debian@jff.email> wrote: > Hello Albretch, > bitz-server has 4 RC-Bugs[1], which could not be fixed by me. > No fixes came from the upstream either. > Therefore the package had to be removed from testing and unstable. Well, thank you: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=966418 that RC bug would be the place for me to start. I am not familiar with the debian dev process and there are other "cultural" aspects which are not totally clear to me. Jörg (developer, initial maintainer of the package) tells us bitz-server has bugs, which haven't been fixed, but I see the packaged listed as "stable" in buster: https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=bitz-server Also, I am not looking at the matter from the pit yet, but RFC 3057 shouldn't be that difficult to implement and, as I see it, an ICAP server is "simply" a light httpd, Apache module kind of piece of software and there is a currently maintained, full implementations of it in C: https://github.com/c-icap/c-icap-server That implementation could be included as a debian package. So I wounder what the actual problem could possibly be. If, for whatever reason, debian opts out of that project and continues to support the C++ effort, I need to first make that bug reproducible and, if possible, know the details of what previous minds thought of that prior art/effort, which Uditha has kept alive: https://github.com/uditha-atukorala/bitz-server I also noticed that someone else (Cameron Norman <camerontnor...@gmail.com>) was trying to resurrect blitz-server before: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=769076 but that effort was unsuccessful since it was even "removed from mentors". In case the package still contains bugs, would you, Uditha and/or Cameron, anyone who is knowledgeable about such matters share their own dev notes/logs? You know me from my jestful rants, but, by profession, I am a theoretical physicist who worked mostly as a data analyst (starting with FORTRAN, mostly C and C++, then later java to then fall out of love with coding/"technical matter" altogether and becoming a teacher), so I never had the chance to get too political about programming languages (while I worked for "corporate America" I had to even code in VB! ;-)). All I need to do is reproducibly get to the matter at hand asap (that bug) and squeeze some mind and time from my other projects. I am definitely not into protagonism and we all have plenty of things to do. Es it always good when more than one person commits their mind to it, otherwise it would be some sort of time-wasting suicidal masturbation. lbrtchx
