[htdig-dev] Status of htdig for Sarge..

[Robert R. <ri...@li...>]

Hello,

After a discussion with my sponsor, it was decided to split the htdig 
package for Debian Sarge. There are people out there that rely on the 
indexing speed and on the fact of not having to rebuild their databases 
(I heard of cases of two to three diigit gigabyte figures of documents 
being indexed). Those folks want to rely on the stability and continuity 
of htdig 3.1.6, which will be available as package 'htdig' in Debian Sarge.

On the other hand, there are people who do not need to index that many 
documents or who like to benefit from the new features htdig 3.2.0 has 
introduced. Those people can live with the fact that htdig 3.2.0(b6) 
will run slower than the stable version, and that reindexing their 
databases is needed. For those people, a new package htdig3.2 has been 
created, with the first version entering debian being 3.20b6-1 (Based on 
3.2.0b6).

As you know, there is a set of libraries htdig depends on. I don't think 
that externalising those libraries, as well as providing two separate 
versions of them is worth the trouble. Hence  a choice will have to be 
made. Either you rung the stable, proven version of htdig (3.1.6, as 
package 'htdig'), or you are out for helping the development team 
improve their efforts, or want to reach for new horizons, and install 
'htdig3.2'. In other words, the two versions will conflict with each other.

In the hope of being able to satisfy most

Robert Ribnitz
(Debian Maintainer of htdig and htdig3.2)