The autor claim that this is the third and the last version of xdelta. This new version add bindings for python bugs: - It work fine under x86 architectures but *not* under amd64. - Not a python programmer, so the python extension has not been testested. - Not attaching diff from the prior version (it was/is 20 rows completely rewritten)
Created attachment 51022 [details] the ebuild
Re-assign.
should it not be slotted against the old xdelta so both can be installed in parallel? And a new release is out What are you using it for?
Created attachment 75567 [details] xdelta-3.0c.ebuild may be stupid to open a bug and then say this, but can I suggest to avoid prepare the insertion of this package into the tree ? It compile only for x86, and has a non autotooled build system that make it difficult to manage. In addition there is already in the tree "dev-util/bsdiff" * dev-util/bsdiff Homepage: http://www.daemonology.net/bsdiff/ Description: bsdiff: Binary Differencer using a suffix alg That should do the same work. At the moment I'm _not_ using these packages (either bsdiff or xdelta) That said, attached there is the ebuild for version 30c, still not slotted, but if and when needed it should be easy to do.
I do not use it either, deltup is using bdelta now. xdelta-3 is no good code quality and no one really needs and wants it.