Your message dated Fri, 25 Jul 2008 02:22:39 +0100
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has caused the report #417983,
regarding freeguide tv listing '.ser' file format is pretty much undocumented
to be marked as having been forwarded to the upstream software
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Hello Freeguide upstream,
I will soon be taking over as maintainer of the freeguide package in
Debian, and am going through the bugs clearing them up.
I'm unsure of how to respond to the bug report below, and thought
that you collectively would be in a much better position to answer. I
would ask that you CC [EMAIL PROTECTED] in your
responses to it, so that the Debian bug is kept up-to-date with your
discussion.
Regards,
Daniel Watkins
"A. Costa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Package: freeguide
> Version: 0.10.4-2
> Severity: wishlist
>
>
> Recent versions of 'freeguide' keep TV listings in '.ser' files:
>
> % file ~/.freeguide/day-2007-03-27-B.ser
> /home/alfie/.freeguide/day-2007-03-27-B.ser: Java serialization
> data, version 5
>
> A search of the 'freeguide' man page, docs, help files and Wiki
> doesn't seem turn up a mention of this format. Online there were a
> few messages on programmers mailing lists, but nothing for the novice.
>
> I couldn't find '.ser' in the 'Wotsit' database, but there is an
> entry here:
>
> http://filext.com/detaillist.php?extdetail=.ser&Search=Search
>
> It says it's a kind of Java data file, though nothing specific about
> 'freeguide'.
>
> Yet the file format seems important to 'freeguide'; it would be
> better if the docs had an explanation of what '.ser' files were to
> 'freeguide', why '.ser' is better than 'xml', and whether '.ser' is
> convertible to 'xml' with some standard util**, or is it a dead-end
> file format.
>
> (**the older 'freeguide' xml files could be used to show TV
> info in 'tvtime'.)
>
> Hope this helps...
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