[MIR] libtextcat

[Chris Cheney]

Rationale: Needed by openoffice.org 3.2.1 uploaded today.

I checked and did not see any problems with respect to UbuntuMainInclusionRequirements.

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

- download location is outdated
- last upstream release 2003, is this still maintained upstream?
- the install/libtextcat-data-utf8 target ignores errors from iconv, this should be fixed

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

- does the createfp have to be in main?

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

I examined the OOo source and did not see it reference the createfp program so I don't think it is using it. I can update the packaging to resolve points 1 and 3. It hasn't been updated in a while as you mention and so I have emailed the author to find out its status.

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

Well so far no response from upstream after 5 days so I think they may no longer be maintaining it. I think I will just have our OOo use the internal copy at least until such time that official OOo decides to split up their source (maybe never).

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Promoting for now to allow it to build, but it seems that this dependency should be dropped again?

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

> - download location is outdated
> - the install/libtextcat-data-utf8 target ignores errors from iconv, this should be fixed

fixed now in natty

> - last upstream release 2003, is this still maintained upstream?

still "unmaintained", however the library seems to be small enough, and only implements one algorithm.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

I dont get why this is suddely relevant again. can you update the rational?

also two things:

1. no symbol tracking

2. also one build warning that would be nice to be fixed:
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I. -DVERBOSE -W -Wall -Wshadow -Wpointer-arith -g -O3 -funroll-loops -D_THREAD_SAFE -D_GNU_SOURCE -g -O2 -g -O2 -c wg_mempool.c -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/wg_mempool.lo
wg_mempool.c: In function 'wgmempool_getline':
wg_mempool.c:230:14: warning: ignoring return value of 'fgets', declared with attribute warn_unused_result

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

2011-01-20 09:49:30 INFO Override Component to: 'main'
2011-01-20 09:49:39 INFO 'libtextcat-data-2.2-5ubuntu1/universe/text/OPTIONAL' binary overridden in natty/amd64
2011-01-20 09:49:39 INFO 'libtextcat-data-2.2-5ubuntu1/universe/text/OPTIONAL' binary overridden in natty/armel
2011-01-20 09:49:39 INFO 'libtextcat-data-2.2-5ubuntu1/universe/text/OPTIONAL' binary overridden in natty/i386
2011-01-20 09:49:39 INFO 'libtextcat-data-2.2-5ubuntu1/universe/text/OPTIONAL' binary overridden in natty/powerpc
2011-01-20 09:49:40 INFO 'libtextcat-data-utf8-2.2-5ubuntu1/universe/text/OPTIONAL' binary overridden in natty/amd64
2011-01-20 09:49:40 INFO 'libtextcat-data-utf8-2.2-5ubuntu1/universe/text/OPTIONAL' binary overridden in natty/armel
2011-01-20 09:49:40 INFO 'libtextcat-data-utf8-2.2-5ubuntu1/universe/text/OPTIONAL' binary overridden in natty/i386
2011-01-20 09:49:40 INFO 'libtextcat-data-utf8-2.2-5ubuntu1/universe/text/OPTIONAL' binary overridden in natty/powerpc
2011-01-20 09:49:40 INFO 'libtextcat-dev-2.2-5ubuntu1/universe/libdevel/OPTIONAL' binary overridden in natty/amd64
2011-01-20 09:49:40 INFO 'libtextcat-dev-2.2-5ubuntu1/universe/libdevel/OPTIONAL' binary overridden in natty/armel
2011-01-20 09:49:40 INFO 'libtextcat-dev-2.2-5ubuntu1/universe/libdevel/OPTIONAL' binary overridden in natty/i386
2011-01-20 09:49:40 INFO 'libtextcat-dev-2.2-5ubuntu1/universe/libdevel/OPTIONAL' binary overridden in natty/powerpc
2011-01-20 09:49:40 INFO 'libtextcat0-2.2-5ubuntu1/universe/libs/OPTIONAL' binary overridden in natty/amd64
2011-01-20 09:49:40 INFO 'libtextcat0-2.2-5ubuntu1/universe/libs/OPTIONAL' binary overridden in natty/armel
2011-01-20 09:49:40 INFO 'libtextcat0-2.2-5ubuntu1/universe/libs/OPTIONAL' binary overridden in natty/i386
2011-01-20 09:49:40 INFO 'libtextcat0-2.2-5ubuntu1/universe/libs/OPTIONAL' binary overridden in natty/powerpc

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

thats not answering my question ... but ok.