Comment 15 for bug 25202

Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 00:33:25 -0700
From: Steve Langasek <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Cc: Takao KAWAMURA <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: freecdb: does not provide a shared library

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clone 272127 -1 -2 -3
reassign -1 dbskkd-cdb
reassign -2 skkdic
reassign -3 skksearch
thanks

Kawamura-san,

In bug #272127, the maintainer (and upstream) of freecdb had this to say
about the package:

  I'm much happier just forcing people to migrate to tinycdb, a cleaner
  reimplementation of the same idea, called tinycdb; any project that
  isn't dead itself, and still depends on freecdb, should migrate to
  tinycdb. TinyCDB even gets updated every once in a while.

  The only reason freecdb exists is to support software that wants to
  use djb's cdb, and it even isn't API-compatible with the newer
  versions of cdb. I am upstream for this fork, and am officially
  stating that freecdb is _DEAD DEAD DEAD_. Pining for the fjords!

It seems that you have three packages: skksearch, skkdic, and dbskkd-cdb
that build-depend on freecdb. Can these packages be migrated to
TinyCDB, as Tommi suggests? This would let us remove freecdb from the
archive, which sounds like it would be a good thing.

Thanks,
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Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world.
<email address hidden> http://www.debian.org/

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