* Package name : libnatspec
Version : 0.2.4
Upstream Authors: Vitaly Lipatov <lav@etersoft.ru>,
Pavel Vainerman <pv@etersoft.ru>
* URL : http://natspec.sourceforge.net/
* License : LGPL2.1
Programming Lang: C
Description : a library for national and language-specific issues
This library provides userful functions for dealing with locales and charsets.
Natspec helps to solve most problems related to text reencoding. It enhances
portability and allows projects not to try to deal with lanuage-specific
issues themselves.
Hi Andrew, how are you coming along with packaging natspec? I'd like to offer my help in comaintaining this package if you are interested. Regards Rolf
Hi Andrew, how are you coming along with packaging natspec? I'd like to offer my help in comaintaining this package if you are interested. Regards Rolf
Hello. http://mentors.debian.net/cgi-bin/maintainer-packages?action=details;package=libnatspec ? Since then I've not made any changes to it yet, but if you have any suggestions, please tell me.
latest work from Andrew and me is at http://oss.leggewie.org/deb/libnatspec_0.2.6-1.dsc and http://git.debian.org/?p=collab-maint/libnatspec.git
latest work from Andrew and me is at http://oss.leggewie.org/deb/libnatspec_0.2.6-1.dsc and http://git.debian.org/?p=collab-maint/libnatspec.git
retitle 545151 RFP: libnatspec -- a library for national and language-specific issues noowner 545151 thanks Hi, This is an automatic email to change the status of libnatspec back from ITP (Intent to Package) to RFP (Request for Package), because this bug hasn't seen any activity during the last 6 months. If you are still interested in adopting libnatspec, please send a mail to <control@bugs.debian.org> with: retitle 545151 ITP: libnatspec -- a library for national and language-specific issues owner 545151 ! thanks However, it is not recommended to keep ITP for a long time without acting on the package, as it might cause other prospective maintainers to refrain from packaging that software. It is also a good idea to document your progress on this ITP from time to time, by mailing <545151@bugs.debian.org>. Thank you for your interest in Debian,
Hello, The packages are ready (but not yet sponsored) for a long time ago, so I'm changing everything back.
retitle 545151 RFP: libnatspec -- a library for national and language-specific issues noowner 545151 close 545151 thanks Closing this bug as it seems like there's no high demand in this library to be packaged.
Dear colleagues, I would like to present an additional argument in support of including the libnatspec package in the distribution. At the moment, at least two Debian packages contain code that addresses a similar task. These are the 7zip and far2l packages. Both applications use locale-to-OEM-codepage translation tables to work correctly with the code pages used for encoding filenames in some .zip archives. Including such tables in every application that works with .zip archives (and generally, with any files that may historically contain data in OEM or ANSI encoding, such as ID3 tags in some mp3 files) does not seem like the most logical solution, as any changes to the tables would require modifying each application individually. Based on this, I would propose including the package with the libnatspec library, which addresses the same task, in the distribution. I also know someone who is willing to maintain the package. Thank you! Best regards, Ivan Sorokin