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Date:      16 Feb 2002 13:17:25 +0200
From:      Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@mail.ru>
To:        Pete Fritchman <petef@databits.net>
Cc:        "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>, Ade Lovett <ade@FreeBSD.ORG>, Konstantin Chuguev <Konstantin.Chuguev@dante.org.uk>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG, i18n@FreeBSD.ORG, gnome@FreeBSD.ORG, knu@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re:  iconv port: plea for take-over
Message-ID:  <1013858239.34055.19.camel@notebook>
In-Reply-To: <20020216001336.B22117@databits.net>
References:  <20020215232829.GA49008@nagual.pp.ru> <B8932D0A.695D%ade@FreeBSD.org> <20020216042213.GA54552@nagual.pp.ru>  <20020216001336.B22117@databits.net>

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[knu@FreeBSD.org added, because some time ago we was one of the
proponents for using BSD iconv in instead of GNU one]

On Sat, 2002-02-16 at 07:13, Pete Fritchman wrote:
> ++ 16/02/02 07:22 +0300 - Andrey A. Chernov:
> | On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 21:24:26 -0600, Ade Lovett wrote:
> |=20
> | > them also work with GNU iconv, then I have no problem in initiating t=
he
> | > de-orbit burn sequence for the other iconv (and mark as BROKEN=3D"old=
 iconv"
> | > the other ports).
> |=20
> | I see no ports which will not works with GNU iconv while they works wit=
h=20
> | iconv. Functionally interface it the same and old iconv supports less=20
> | amount of charsets and is buggy (alpha coredumps, i386 dead loops).
> |=20
> | I think we can=20
> | 1) Install giconv without g prefix
> | 2) Mark iconv as BROKEN
> | 3) Let corresponding port maintainers remove 'g' prefix hack patches.
>=20
> Sounds good to me.

So as to me, though instead of marking BSD iconv broken IMO it would be
better to install all its components with `b' prefix (i.e. libiconv -->
libbiconv, iconv.h --> biconv.h etc), so that all packages that are
happy with BSD iconv are still able to use it.

-Maxim

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