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Currently the package libinih uses some heavy patches, which aren't upstream and aren't used by any other distro. I'm in favor of dropping this, but the current maintainer disagrees and we weren't able to make any progess in the discussion, so I want to put this here. Parts of the discussion can be found on this MR: https://salsa.debian.org/yangfl-guest/inih/-/merge_requests/2 To understand this, one has to look a bit at the history behind inih. Upstream was designed as a static library for embedded devices, and therefore has a lot of compile time options. At this point, the current maintainer created a patch to make all compile time option available on runtime. When gamemode started using inih, I wanted to get rid of shipped inih code and upstreamed a build system to inih for a shared library, that any distro can use. This was done in version 48. Due to the popularity of gamemode, inih is now found in most major distros (all without Debian's patches): https://repology.org/project/inih/versions There is a notable "exception": inih is not in Ubuntu's main repository. This is a bit weird because gamemode is in main, but with the shipped inih source which got dropped from 1.6, meaning gamemode is stuck on 1.5.1 on Ubuntu. I'm not sure why, but I suspect the heavy patches make it harder to be included in main. Because the library was designed for embedded use cases where every little bit of performance matters, the runtime patch was refused upstream. Dropping the runtime patch from Debian actually isn't problem, no reverse dependency of libinih uses compile time options anyway. However, due to the history of inih in Debian is has the soversion 1, while upstream is soversion 0. I want to drop the vendorisation of Debian and start a transition to soversion 0 (which is also a reason I contact the Technical Committee, as it's not clear how this would be done). A transition is needed anyway since dropping the patch is a breaking change anyway. If the Technical Committee agrees to this, I would also gladly help to maintain this package since it is 2 version behind upstream since almost half a year and I maintain gamemode, which is directly affected by this. This isn't urgent, but it would be nice to get this done till bulleseye. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCgAdFiEEu0Wws/9WG9vUXuips1tJ6l1WPv4FAl+5BWIACgkQs1tJ6l1W Pv7dyA//QMHV+BGlUzXIMCcBlkVnYe85/TT8xH2peZTZ7j5ULBwvGGVhYG1Dt8/A PcziDIcVLhmEN6N5r9vTispp0McTy5nNpotVgZ/5KJ1+WzRS+7D1YGXyS6YOTF7H p4rK7PMMok8Yvjrxe/k8TRqRL6tw9+1cXRYhSBQg0TQGPTCEPh5nlWSgSOTKyHAe ZAcpeUmLXvI0fLHiKAyxtI2nVPadWy+MFlJP4oJU1ml5+4ZUqDZ/DcC+qeHE8tSh 8oFdtG4/3REtb1e2x0LfeV45oj/MBv7X6IyWaw5vvjzLEiZHxuY8SRgMpgBzkNaC y675orpcwNKFFkA5PdlxtGstDfzoUi70Gl8sNMNFt26w3+eX9+w/CxpgSIftHp6/ 2cJRlgjfN6a2Eog9skq6XhGGoVZ1HHjq1mAtinKw9Wv0L88hd62PCzRu+ZVScGr8 MNK43VxbP2PCBMWY5z9uFlANBbgY4R4wPbKjZmH9NJW3yJDXHeKjCGfDrw3KX/5l eIC+CbfEMuPHl02HY6TJwn0cDeEsRiyrLA+4aHrG1Vxy92L+4PPsQuJts6DzmGej HNiyXvaSC88ovkOk2mgxtPx+dgI3qpmpMzJYqkpHg2Eo5zn12DpiubsZRHmR/1Fz hrE4lwvV3W1DN4ztQs/Faa9zsRgPrhgEVKJMuqCwLSDeMovXCsY= =kj7T -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
