Please upgrade to new upstream, current version very old

[Kevin Rosenberg]

Version in Debian sid / Ubuntu Edgy is 0.9.10. However, this version is 2 years old.

Current stable upstream 1.06.5 is and is downloadable from http://xmlrpc-c.sourceforge.net/downloading.php.

Version 1.0+ has a *significantly* expanded C++ API which works very well. I've been maintaining my own local .deb of xmlrpc-c for over a year now since the Debian maintainer has been ignoring requests for upgrading this library for over a year. Debian bug #317979

In fact, I emailed the maintainer about 9 months ago and offerred to co-maintain ('m a debian developer) the package and send him a diff for the current debian version. However, he never responded.

Perhaps Ubuntu can do better than Debian for this package.

[Florian Ragwitz (florian-ragwitz)]

Hello Chris,

it would really be nice if you could update xmlrpc-c to version 1.03.03.
It features some really important changes and I need the latest version
for some projects I'm working on.

Maybe you lack some time at the moment? If yes I could offer you to be
your Co-Maintainer and update it. Maybe you also want me to take the
package over?

Regards,
Flo

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[Christian von Kietzell (christian-vonkietzell)]

Package: libxmlrpc-c3
Followup-For: Bug #317979

Hi,

by now version 1.03.06 has been released. I could really use the new C++
interface that has been introduced in 1.03.

Cheers,
  Chris

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[Kevin Rosenberg (kevin-rosenberg)]

Version in Debian sid / Ubuntu Edgy is 0.9.10. However, this version is 2 years old.

Current stable upstream 1.06.5 is and is downloadable from http://xmlrpc-c.sourceforge.net/downloading.php.

Version 1.0+ has a *significantly* expanded C++ API which works very well. I've been maintaining my own local .deb of xmlrpc-c for over a year now since the Debian maintainer has been ignoring requests for upgrading this library for over a year. Debian bug #317979

In fact, I emailed the maintainer about 9 months ago and offerred to co-maintain ('m a debian developer) the package and send him a diff for the current debian version. However, he never responded.

Perhaps Ubuntu can do better than Debian for this package.

[magilus (magilus)]

You can

a) wait for a MOTU packaging this

or

b) do it youself: You may want to read http://doc.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/packagingguide/C/index.html, especially the "Uploading and Review" part.

:-)

[Domenico Andreoli (cavok)]

Hi Chris,

  I just noted xmlrpc-c is lacking some attention, new upstream release
is available, trivial bugs are not fixed...

I would be happy to help on it until you are not fully back up and
running. I am going to provide updated packages somewhere.

If I do not get any opposing response from you withing about 1 month,
I will proceed with the upload and forced help, ok? :)

Regards,
Domenico

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[Chris Leishman (cleishm)]

Hi Domenico,

I have had a string of people offer to adopt this package over the
last year or so, as I don't really have the time to work on it. But
nobody seems to have actually taken it on yet. You might like to
check with Margarita Manterola <email address hidden>, as they
were the last to offer to take it on.

chris

On 6/25/07, Domenico Andreoli <email address hidden> wrote:
> Hi Chris,
>
> I just noted xmlrpc-c is lacking some attention, new upstream release
> is available, trivial bugs are not fixed...
>
> I would be happy to help on it until you are not fully back up and
> running. I am going to provide updated packages somewhere.
>
> If I do not get any opposing response from you withing about 1 month,
> I will proceed with the upload and forced help, ok? :)
>
> Regards,
> Domenico
>
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[Miguel Ruiz (mruiz)]

I'm working on it. ASAP I'll upload the package to REVU for reviews.

Greetings!

[Pawel Tecza (ptecza)]

I hope it will be useful information for people who need new xmlrpc-c packages.

Recently I've found unofficial xmlrpc-c 1.06.11 packages by Luc Saillard
at http://saillard.org/debian/debian-sid-i386/libxmlrpc-c/.

It's not the latest stable version of xmlrcp-c, but it's newer and better version
of xmlrpc-c then ancient version in Debian and Ubuntu.

[Kevin Rosenberg (kevin-rosenberg)]

Paweł Tęcza wrote:
> I hope it will be useful information for people who need new xmlrpc-c
> packages.
>
> Recently I've found unofficial xmlrpc-c 1.06.11 packages by Luc Saillard
> at http://saillard.org/debian/debian-sid-i386/libxmlrpc-c/.
>
> It's not the latest stable version of xmlrcp-c, but it's newer and better version
> of xmlrpc-c then ancient version in Debian and Ubuntu.

Thanks for the tip!

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[Barry deFreese (bddebian)]

Miguel. Did you ever get a chance to package this? With REVU being down I can't review it if you did. If you haven't let's see if we can't get this packaged and approved. UVF is coming VERY soon. Thanks.

[Miguel Ruiz (mruiz)]

I uploaded a candidate version (xmlrpc-c 1.06.17). As REVU is offline, I'm using my server:

http://vulcano.mine.nu/mruiz/ubuntu/

I'm waiting for comments,

Thanks!

[Barry deFreese (bddebian)]

Uploaded xmlrpc-c 1.06.17 to Gutsy. Thanks to Miquel for the packaging!

[Miguel Ruiz (mruiz)]

xmlrpc-c (1.06.17-0ubuntu1) gutsy; urgency=low

  * New upstream version. (LP: #61682)
  * debian/control
    - Updated Maintainer value to match Debian-Maintainer-Field Spec.
    - Changed ${Source-Version} to ${binary:Version} (safely binNMUable).
    - Fixed typo (description-synopsis-might-not-be-phrased-properly).
  * Use of debian/compat instead of DH_COMPAT.
    - debian/compat: Updated.
    - debian/rules: Removed 'export DH_COMPAT=3'
  * debian/rules
    - Updated to work with new upstream version.
  * debian/libxmlrpc-c3-dev.docs
    - Updated documentation available.

 -- Miguel Ruiz <email address hidden> Sun, 12 Aug 2007 19:17:06 -0400

[Pawel Tecza (ptecza)]

Hi Miguel,

At first, thanks a lot for packaging the latest version of xmlrpc-c! :)

I have a problem with building Feisty backport on my AMD64 machine.
Could you please apply the following patch for that architecture
to fix it?

--- debian/rules-orig 2007-08-13 12:46:29.000000000 +0200
+++ debian/rules 2007-08-13 12:46:53.000000000 +0200
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@
 build-arch: build-arch-stamp
 build-arch-stamp: config.status
        dh_testdir
- $(MAKE)
+ $(MAKE) CADD=-fPIC
        touch build-arch-stamp

 build-indep: build-indep-stamp

This is an official hint from xmlrpc-c doc/INSTALL file (/64 Bit Linux -fPIC).

My best regards,

Pawel

[Pawel Tecza (ptecza)]

It's me again :)

I've forgotten about the build error message:

dpkg-buildpackage -uc -us -rfakeroot
[...]
rm -f libxmlrpc_client++.a
ar cru libxmlrpc_client++.a client.o client_simple.o curl.o libwww.o wininet.o
ranlib libxmlrpc_client++.a
g++ -shared -Wl,-soname,libxmlrpc_cpp.so.3 -o libxmlrpc_cpp.so.3.06 XmlRpcCpp.o
/usr/bin/ld: XmlRpcCpp.o: relocation R_X86_64_32 against `a local symbol' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
XmlRpcCpp.o: could not read symbols: Bad value
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[3]: *** [libxmlrpc_cpp.so.3.06] Error 1

I think it can be helpful to diagnose and resolve problem.

Pawel

[Barry deFreese (bddebian)]

I have uploaded a new version with your suggested fix. Please let me know if this works. Thanks.

[Pawel Tecza (ptecza)]

Barry,

I can confirm that now I can build the xmlrpc-c packages on AMD64:

dpkg-buildpackage -uc -us -rfakeroot
[...]
cd ..
ls *deb
libxmlrpc-c3_1.06.17-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb
libxmlrpc-c3-dev_1.06.17-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb
xml-rpc-api2cpp_1.06.17-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb
xml-rpc-api2txt_1.06.17-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb

Thank you very much!

Pawel

[Barry deFreese (bddebian)]

Excellent, thanks for the follow-up!

[Pawel Tecza (ptecza)]

Recently I've confirmed that libxmlrpc* packages were built successfully, but now I can see
they have bad content. The error is also for packages I downloaded to compare from official
Polish Ubuntu mirror I use:

ptecza@ubuntudev:~$ wget http://ubuntu.task.gda.pl/ubuntu/pool/universe/x/xmlrpc-c/libxmlrpc-c3_1.06.17-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb
ptecza@ubuntudev:~$ mkdir libxmlrpc-c3
ptecza@ubuntudev:~$ dpkg -x libxmlrpc-c3_1.06.17-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb libxmlrpc-c3
ptecza@ubuntudev:~$ find libxmlrpc-c3/
libxmlrpc-c3/
libxmlrpc-c3/usr
libxmlrpc-c3/usr/share
libxmlrpc-c3/usr/share/doc
libxmlrpc-c3/usr/share/doc/libxmlrpc-c3
libxmlrpc-c3/usr/share/doc/libxmlrpc-c3/copyright
libxmlrpc-c3/usr/share/doc/libxmlrpc-c3/changelog.Debian.gz

ptecza@ubuntudev:~$ wget http://ubuntu.task.gda.pl/ubuntu/pool/universe/x/xmlrpc-c/libxmlrpc-c3-dev_1.06.17-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb
ptecza@ubuntudev:~$ mkdir libxmlrpc-c3-dev
ptecza@ubuntudev:~$ dpkg -x libxmlrpc-c3-dev_1.06.17-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb libxmlrpc-c3-dev
ptecza@ubuntudev:~$ find libxmlrpc-c3-dev/
libxmlrpc-c3-dev/
libxmlrpc-c3-dev/usr
libxmlrpc-c3-dev/usr/share
libxmlrpc-c3-dev/usr/share/doc
libxmlrpc-c3-dev/usr/share/doc/libxmlrpc-c3-dev
libxmlrpc-c3-dev/usr/share/doc/libxmlrpc-c3-dev/SECURITY
libxmlrpc-c3-dev/usr/share/doc/libxmlrpc-c3-dev/TESTING
libxmlrpc-c3-dev/usr/share/doc/libxmlrpc-c3-dev/CREDITS
libxmlrpc-c3-dev/usr/share/doc/libxmlrpc-c3-dev/README
libxmlrpc-c3-dev/usr/share/doc/libxmlrpc-c3-dev/examples
libxmlrpc-c3-dev/usr/share/doc/libxmlrpc-c3-dev/examples/gen_sample_add_xml.c
libxmlrpc-c3-dev/usr/share/doc/libxmlrpc-c3-dev/examples/xmlrpc_sample_add_server_cgi.c
libxmlrpc-c3-dev/usr/share/doc/libxmlrpc-c3-dev/examples/xmlrpc_asynch_client.c
libxmlrpc-c3-dev/usr/share/doc/libxmlrpc-c3-dev/examples/xmlrpc_server_validatee.c.gz
libxmlrpc-c3-dev/usr/share/doc/libxmlrpc-c3-dev/examples/xmlrpc_sample_add_client.c
libxmlrpc-c3-dev/usr/share/doc/libxmlrpc-c3-dev/examples/xmlrpc_inetd_server.c
libxmlrpc-c3-dev/usr/share/doc/libxmlrpc-c3-dev/examples/auth_client.c
libxmlrpc-c3-dev/usr/share/doc/libxmlrpc-c3-dev/examples/synch_client.c
libxmlrpc-c3-dev/usr/share/doc/libxmlrpc-c3-dev/examples/conf
libxmlrpc-c3-dev/usr/share/doc/libxmlrpc-c3-dev/examples/conf/abyss_root
libxmlrpc-c3-dev/usr/share/doc/libxmlrpc-c3-dev/examples/conf/abyss_root/htdocs
libxmlrpc-c3-dev/usr/share/doc/libxmlrpc-c3-dev/examples/conf/abyss_root/htdocs/index.htm
libxmlrpc-c3-dev/usr/share/doc/libxmlrpc-c3-dev/examples/conf/abyss_root/htdocs/pwrabyss.gif
libxmlrpc-c3-dev/usr/share/doc/libxmlrpc-c3-dev/examples/conf/abyss_root/conf
libxmlrpc-c3-dev/usr/share/doc/libxmlrpc-c3-dev/examples/conf/abyss_root/conf/mime.types.gz
libxmlrpc-c3-dev/usr/share/doc/libxmlrpc-c3-dev/examples/conf/abyss_root/conf/abyss.conf
libxmlrpc-c3-dev/usr/share/doc/libxmlrpc-c3-dev/examples/query-meerkat.c.gz
libxmlrpc-c3-dev/usr/share/doc/libxmlrpc-c3-dev/examples/xmlrpc_loop_server.c
libxmlrpc-c3-dev/usr/share/doc/libxmlrpc-c3-dev/examples/xmlrpc_sample_add_server.c
libxmlrpc-c3-dev/usr/share/doc/libxmlrpc-c3-dev/examples/xmlrpc_sample_add_server_w32httpsys.c.gz
libxmlrpc-c3-dev/usr/share/doc/libxmlrpc-c3-dev/examples/xmlrpc_socket_server.c
libxmlrpc-c3-dev/usr/share/doc/li...

[Kevin Rosenberg (kevin-rosenberg)]

Ubuntu Gutsy recently added a newer version xmlrpc (1.06.17) which
should be able to be ported to Debian rather easily.

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[Miguel Ruiz (mruiz)]

Hi Pawel,

xmlrpc-c package was updated, please use the last source.

Thanks in advance

[Pawel Tecza (ptecza)]

Hello Miguel,

Thanks a lot for the message! I've checked the latest source
of xmlrpc-c and now it seems that it's OK.

It was pleasure for me ;)

[Micha Lenk (micha)]

block 441543 by 317979
thanks

Hi Chris,

On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 08:23:35AM +1000, Chris Leishman wrote:
> Hi Domenico,
>
> I have had a string of people offer to adopt this package over the
> last year or so, as I don't really have the time to work on it. But
> nobody seems to have actually taken it on yet. You might like to
> check with Margarita Manterola <email address hidden>, as they
> were the last to offer to take it on.

If you really want the package to get adopted by someone else you should
submit a RFA bug against the package wnpp as described here:
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/ch-pkgs.en.html#s-orphaning
Otherwise others will need to hijack your package -- which is not the
preferred way to go, though...

I hope you will find an adopter soon as I need a newer version of this
library in order to close #441543.

Micha

[Tom Parker (palfrey)]

block 443091 by 317979
thanks

[Tom Parker (palfrey)]

Just had a quick go at building new packages for the latest version
(1.06.18). Had a go at upgrading via uscan from the old packages, but
too much had changed, so I just made a pristine copy of the new source
and copied the old debian/ folder in and worked from there. Got
something pretty decent, source results of which I'll send to
317979-quiet in a moment...

Not a DD myself, but if one wants to use it to upload a new package,
please feel free.

Tom

[Tom Parker (palfrey)]

WFM on i386 sid system.

[sean finney (seanius)]

hey folks,

this package is getting waaay out of date. as the current maintainer has
stated in the BR (which has been open for over 2 years), he doesn't really
have the time/interest in continuing to maintain it and has offerred to give
it up to those in the BR, but nothing has happened.

also, gutsy has moved on ahead and packaged the latest version.

personally, i have a small amount of interest in seeing this package updated,
as i would like the xmlrpc support in rtorrent which is blocked by this.
so, unless there are any serious objections i will just grab the version from
gutsy if that seems to work, and follow their lead.

i don't believe that the updating will cause too much problems wrt
transitions, since there's only one reverse depends (openser) for the
package currently in unstable afaict.

if there's anyone who's more interested in permanently maintaining this
package feel free to step up.

 sean

[sean finney (seanius)]

Package: xmlrpc-c
Followup-For: Bug #317979

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hi,

as i mentioned last night i have interest in having this updated.
attached is a source package more or less straight ripped from ubuntu,
with a few lintian related fixes thrown in for good measure. before
uploading it i will also check what the status is of the other open
bugs wrt the latest version... which should also give a bit more time
for any objections to be raised.

 sean

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[sean finney (seanius)]

Source: xmlrpc-c
Source-Version: 1.06.18-1

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
xmlrpc-c, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

libxmlrpc-c3-dev_1.06.18-1_amd64.deb
  to pool/main/x/xmlrpc-c/libxmlrpc-c3-dev_1.06.18-1_amd64.deb
libxmlrpc-c3_1.06.18-1_amd64.deb
  to pool/main/x/xmlrpc-c/libxmlrpc-c3_1.06.18-1_amd64.deb
xml-rpc-api2cpp_1.06.18-1_amd64.deb
  to pool/main/x/xmlrpc-c/xml-rpc-api2cpp_1.06.18-1_amd64.deb
xml-rpc-api2txt_1.06.18-1_amd64.deb
  to pool/main/x/xmlrpc-c/xml-rpc-api2txt_1.06.18-1_amd64.deb
xmlrpc-c_1.06.18-1.diff.gz
  to pool/main/x/xmlrpc-c/xmlrpc-c_1.06.18-1.diff.gz
xmlrpc-c_1.06.18-1.dsc
  to pool/main/x/xmlrpc-c/xmlrpc-c_1.06.18-1.dsc
xmlrpc-c_1.06.18.orig.tar.gz
  to pool/main/x/xmlrpc-c/xmlrpc-c_1.06.18.orig.tar.gz

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to <email address hidden>,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
sean finney <email address hidden> (supplier of updated xmlrpc-c package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing <email address hidden>)

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Format: 1.7
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 21:57:43 +0200
Source: xmlrpc-c
Binary: libxmlrpc-c3-dev libxmlrpc-c3 xml-rpc-api2txt xml-rpc-api2cpp
Architecture: source amd64
Version: 1.06.18-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: sean finney <email address hidden>
Changed-By: sean finney <email address hidden>
Description:
 libxmlrpc-c3 - A lightweight RPC library based on XML and HTTP for C and C++
 libxmlrpc-c3-dev - A lightweight RPC library based on XML and HTTP for C and C++
 xml-rpc-api2cpp - Generate C++ wrapper classes for XML-RPC servers
 xml-rpc-api2txt - Dump an XML-RPC API as a text file
Closes: 309954 317979 395797 417773 433195
Changes:
 xmlrpc-c (1.06.18-1) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * new upstream release (closes: #317979).
     - now builds with ssl support (closes: #309954).
     - now ships with a libxmlrpc_cpp.so (closes: #433195).
   * patched various source files to explictly include headers that
     will cause an FTBFS for gcc >= 4.3 (closes: #417773).
   * include a build target (closes: #395797).
   * add conflicts against libxmlrpc++-dev in this dev package, due to
     newly introduced file conflicts.
   * lintian fixes:
     - update Standards-Version to 3.7.2
     - update clean target to conditionally run, but we still have to ignore
       errors because it doesn't always work.
     - add lintian ignore rule for the soname difference, (foo-c3 vs foo3).
   * in the interest of credit where it is due, the packaging is entirely
     based on the ubuntu/1.06.17-0ubuntu4 package.
Files:
 3617ea5debdef186645e39b7802bcf47 627 libs optional xmlrpc-c_1.06.18-1.dsc
 dddd711a2905c03afa1fc7fd6860e445 690590 libs optional xmlrpc-c_1.06.18.orig.tar.gz
 6e310e8b0518666167c2dcea61ad282a 6581 libs optional xmlrpc-c_1...

[Marga (margamanterola)]

On 9/26/07, sean finney <email address hidden> wrote:

> this package is getting waaay out of date. as the current maintainer has
> stated in the BR (which has been open for over 2 years), he doesn't really
> have the time/interest in continuing to maintain it and has offerred to give
> it up to those in the BR, but nothing has happened.

I worked on this package, preparing a "new upstream release", but got
entangled in the middle with some things that didn't work properly...
I don't really remember what were the problems back then.

> personally, i have a small amount of interest in seeing this package updated,
> as i would like the xmlrpc support in rtorrent which is blocked by this.
> so, unless there are any serious objections i will just grab the version from
> gutsy if that seems to work, and follow their lead.

That's fine with me, I don't have that much interest in the package. I
wanted the update because of a game that I wanted to package, but the
game stopped development, so I lost my interest.

But, please, if you are going to take gutsy's version, do check it for
Debian Quality. I've seen many Ubuntu packages that don't really
follow our standards (specially the CDBS ones).

--
Love,
Marga

[Micha Lenk (micha)]

notfound 317979 1.06.21-1
thanks

Sean, you shouldn't drop old changelog entries when uploading updated
packages... ;)

Micha

[Micha Lenk (micha)]

Version: 1.06.21-1

Hi,

this bug has been closed in 1.06.18-1, but for some reasons the bug
tracker believes that it's still present in 1.06.21-1. This is another
try to fix this issue.

Regards
  Micha

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