On Sat, Jun 16, 2018 at 02:53:54PM -0400, Sergio Durigan Junior wrote: > On Saturday, June 16 2018, Fabian Wolff wrote: > > Could someone please create a 'libantlr3c' repository in the Debian > > group on Salsa and give me (wolff-guest) write access to it? An empty > > repository will suffice, I will populate the repository with the > > history from snapshot.debian.org as well as my own changes. > > Done: > > https://salsa.debian.org/debian/libantlr3c
Great, thank you. You see, I am the maintainer of a reverse dependency of libantlr3c (cvc4). libantlr3c is scheduled for autoremoval on 15 July due to #900601, and since libantlr3c is currently orphaned, I took it upon myself to investigate the issue. I have attempted to fix the issue by removing the non-DFSG-compliant files. One of the functions that was defined there is needed by other parts of the code, however, which is why I have provided an alternative implementation. I know rather little about proper Unicode string handling, and I have never worked with libicu, which is why I've attempted a solution in C++. Better solutions are welcome, of course. Removing the non-DFSG files changes the public API, so a transition is necessary. There has also been a new upstream release that changes the SONAME, so I figured it would be best to combine both of those into a single transition, which is why I've included the new upstream release into this QA upload. I have uploaded the package to Mentors: https://mentors.debian.net/package/libantlr3c I have set the distribution to "experimental", as described in [0]. Sergio, would you be willing to sponsor this upload? I would also be glad if you could assist me with the rest of the transition process. Thank you very much! Best regards, Fabian [0] https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/ReleaseTeam/Transitions
