Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name : global6 Version : 6.2.10 Upstream authoer : Shigio YAMAGUCHI <shi...@gnu.org> * URL : http://www.gnu.org/software/global/ * License : GPL either version 3, or (at your option) any later version Programming language: C Description : Version 6 of GNU GLOBAL, a source code tag system that works the same way across diverse environments
GNU GLOBAL is a very excellent and mature source code tag system. It supports various development environment, such as command line, Emacs, VI, web broswer etc. It also has a cscope compatible interface. In addition, its capability can be extended by using GNU ID Utils and Exuberant CTAGS. GNU GLOBAL had been packaged and maintained by Ron Lee <r...@debian.org> until version 5.7.1. Since then, due to some disagreement between the upstream and Debian maintainer, GNU GLOBAL's Debian packages no longer updates and incompatible changes, such as htmake, are introduced into the Debian packages. Please see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=574947 for details. By contrast, the development of the upstream of GNU GLOBAL is still very active. The latest version is 6.2.10 which has many significant improvements and bug fixes compared with 5.7.1. It would be very great if Debian can have packages of the new generation (version 6) of GNU GLOBAL. The Ubuntu users can leverage as well. By having both original global and the proposed global6 packages in Debian simultaneously, we can resolve the issue reported by bug #574947. I have packaged the new versions of GNU GLOBAL by myself. I can upload the related files to Debian mentor if needed. Thanks, Hongzheng -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/caeikrd5v6ii17b+3l_9cgyeyaazfcbscmyfuemcr-lhuxp5...@mail.gmail.com
