Package: libept-dev
Version: 0.5.26+b1
Severity: wishlist
Hello,
most of the things that can be done with libept can now be done just as
easily by a mix of libapt-pkg and libxapian. The exception to this is
adept, which however uses entirely different parts of libept than the
rest of the software in Debian.
The medium to long term plan for libept would therefore be to make it
disappear. The idea is to do so gradually:
1. move adept-specific code into adept (see #540209)
2. remove all the code not needed by aptitude, debtags, packagesearch
and goplay
3. submit patches to aptitude, debtags, packagesearch and goplay to
stop using some part of libept
4. goto 2, until libept can be removed from the archive.
Ciao,
Enrico
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages libept-dev depends on:
ii libapt-pkg-dev 0.7.21 Development files for APT's libapt
ii libept0 0.5.26+b1 High-level library for managing De
ii libtagcoll2-dev 2.0.11-1 Functions used to manipulate tagge
ii libwibble-dev 0.1.23-1 Library of various useful C++ code
ii libxapian-dev 1.0.13-3 Development files for Xapian searc
Versions of packages libept-dev recommends:
ii pkg-config 0.22-1 manage compile and link flags for
libept-dev suggests no packages.
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