Bug 81655

Summary:	dev-util/xdelta-3.0b.ebuild
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Francesco R. (RETIRED) <vivo>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	No maintainer - Look at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Proxy_Maintainers if you want to take care of it <maintainer-needed>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	aliz, genstef, vivo
Priority:	High	Keywords:	EBUILD
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://xdelta.org
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	the ebuild xdelta-3.0c.ebuild

Description Francesco R. (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-02-11 12:30:39 UTC

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)

Comment 1 Francesco R. (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-02-11 12:31:15 UTC

Created attachment 51022 [details]
the ebuild

Comment 2 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-11-11 09:39:54 UTC

Re-assign.

Comment 3 Stefan Schweizer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-12-26 01:20:53 UTC

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?

Comment 4 Francesco R. (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-12-26 13:41:59 UTC

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.

Comment 5 Stefan Schweizer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-12-26 13:52:17 UTC

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.