Re: [Gap-dev-discuss] Cynthiune -- MusicBrainz support

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi,

Yavor Doganov wrote:
> Yep, please keep it going. The Debian freeze is supposed to be in 
> effect in ten days, and anything we can get in before that date is 
> very likely to end up in the next stable release. 
Ok, let's keep up the good work.

> > I hope I do not need to open a debian bug report for each one to get
> > it updated :)
> There's no need, I started to update them.  Already done
> SimpleAgenda/0.42.2, BatMon/0.6, RSSKit/0.3, Grr/0.9.0 (soon to be
> obsolete :-)) and I'm currently working on Zipper.  (BTW, there's a
> bug reported against zipper.app that I either don't understand or
> can't reproduce (http://bugs.debian.org/bug=315272).)
I can't reproduce it either, perhaps it is no longer valid with current 
gnustep: if i manually type in a different path, the "ok" button gets 
automatically disabled.

> > Nexto on the list are PDFKit, RSSKit+Grr and Cynthiune.
> PDFKit is a no-op for Debian, because of the security problems in
> xpdf's code.  It took quite some time to get rid of the many embedded
> xpdf sources, and now there's only the xpdf (the viewer) package which
> is patched to use poppler.  I'm fairly confident that the Debian FTP
> masters will REJECT PDFKit.
It is not crucial, it is only used for the inspector. I don't think 
popplerkit is in any way really superior to xpdf. xpdf got segurity 
updates since years ago there was all the fuss about it. Also 
license-wise popplerkit is just an "evolution" of xpdf itself and thus 
encumbered by the same problem.
A clean, compact, fast PDF library with GPLv3 compatible license is an 
open issue.

Thus, for now, I will just continue to support xpdf and ignore rejects.

What I would really wish is to make the "bridge" use the installed PDF 
library and not incorporate the code. But almost no distirbutions 
installs the xpdf library, only the complete binary.

Everything is suboptimal, but it works well enough for the goal right now.
> I'm delaying GWorkspace as I want to test it extensively.
Fine. You skipped one whole release anyway. I hope 0.9.1 will work and 
copile fine for you. In the extreme case, we could work on current and 
generate patches.
> For Terminal, I'm going to write to Gürkan about his stance regarding
> upstream.  Next on my list are GNUMail, MPDcon and eventually AClock
> (with Gürkan's consent), and at the end the games, if there's time.
Yes, they are less important. I don't now if there is a lusernet 
package? in case, I have updates for that one to make it work against 
current stuff. GNUMail and Pantomime are in flux with German Adrias, but 
there is currently the authetnication problem, wlse I'd see it fine for 
a release.

Riccardo