[needs-packaging] libguess

[Cosme Domínguez]

Homepage: http://www.atheme.org/project/libguess
Downloads: http://www.atheme.org/project/libguess or http://distfiles.atheme.org

libguess is a high-speed character set detection library.

libguess employs discrete-finite automata to deduce the character set of the input buffer. The advantage of this is that all character sets can be checked in parallel, and quickly. Right now, libguess passes a byte to each DFA on the same pass, meaning that the winning character set can be deduced as efficiently as possible.

libguess is fully reentrant, using only local stack memory for DFA operations.

It's opensource: http://hg.atheme.org/libguess/libguess/file/tip/COPYING

Also, audacious uses this lib for character set detection (see LP: #624382)

[Cosme Domínguez (cosme)]

Revu link

http://revu.ubuntuwire.com/p/libguess

[Benjamin Drung (bdrung)]

What are your plans for Debian?

Personal I would prefer simple form dh over cdbs and DEP-5 for debian/copyright.

Why do you use GPL-3 for the packaging? I recommend to use the same license as upstream (in this case BSD) (or a license with less restrictions than upstream).

[Cosme Domínguez (cosme)]

2010/9/3 Benjamin Drung <email address hidden>:
> What are your plans for Debian?

I don't use Debian and I don't know how submit a package to Debian.

If you want submit to Debian, ok.

> Personal I would prefer simple form dh over cdbs and DEP-5 for
> debian/copyright.

debian/copyright format is from dh-make and cdbs, for example, would
keep updated config.guess and config.sub files.

> Why do you use GPL-3 for the packaging? I recommend to use the same
> license as upstream (in this case BSD) (or a license with less
> restrictions than upstream).

Again, I use, as license of deb package, that dh-make puts by default
in debian/copyright.

[Cosme Domínguez (cosme)]

added debian/libguess1.symbols

[Cosme Domínguez (cosme)]

> What are your plans for Debian?

I don't use Debian and I don't know how submit a package to Debian.

If you want submit to Debian, ok.

> Personal I would prefer simple form dh over cdbs and DEP-5 for
> debian/copyright.

debian/copyright format is from dh-make and cdbs, for example, would
keep updated config.guess and config.sub files.

> Why do you use GPL-3 for the packaging? I recommend to use the same
> license as upstream (in this case BSD) (or a license with less
> restrictions than upstream).

Again, I use, as license of deb package, that dh-make puts by default
in debian/copyright.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

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[Benjamin Drung (bdrung)]

> I don't use Debian and I don't know how submit a package to Debian.
Either file a ITP if you want to maintain that package in Debian or a RFP if you only want to provide the initial packaging. http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/

> cdbs, for example, would keep updated config.guess and config.sub files.
"dh $@ --with autotools_dev" will do the same job

> debian/copyright format is from dh-make
http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep5/
Can you relicense the package under the same license as upstream if there are no reasons against it?

[Cosme Domínguez (cosme)]

> Either file a ITP if you want to maintain that package in Debian or a RFP if you only want to provide the initial packaging. http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/

Ok and thanks.... but...

- In Debian, I should be a Debian Developer (DD) to maintain a package?
- If we should submit all new packages to Debian... why exists REVU?

>> cdbs, for example, would keep updated config.guess and config.sub files.
> "dh $@ --with autotools_dev" will do the same job
>
>> debian/copyright format is from dh-make
> http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep5/
> Can you relicense the package under the same license as upstream if there are no reasons against it?

I will do, but I don't know if upload to REVU or to Debian...

[Benjamin Drung (bdrung)]

> - In Debian, I should be a Debian Developer (DD) to maintain a package?

No. You can upload packages through a mentor.

> - If we should submit all new packages to Debian... why exists REVU?

To have a place to review packages that are only useful for Ubuntu.

> I will do, but I don't know if upload to REVU or to Debian...

The package for Debian should be uploaded to http://mentors.debian.net/

[Logan Rosen (logan)]

libguess is available in Oneiric, Precise, Quantal, and Raring: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libguess