Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andreas Henriksson <andr...@fatal.se>
* Package name : libeconf Version : 0.3.8 Upstream Author : Pascal Arlt <pa...@suse.com> * URL : https://github.com/openSUSE/libeconf * License : Expat Programming Lang: C Description : parse and manage key=value configuration files libeconf is a highly flexible and configureable library to parse and manage key=value configuration files. It reads configuration file snippets from different directories and builds the final configuration file for the application from it. The first file is the vendor provided configuration file. There are two methods of overriding this vendor settings: copy the file from /usr/vendordir to /etc and modify the settings. Alternatively, a directory named file.suffix.d/ within /etc can be created, with drop-in files in the form name.suffix. This files contain only the changes of the specific settings the user is interested in. There can be serveral such drop-in files, they are processed in lexicographic order of their filename. In other words, this implements the configuration file scheme made popular by systemd unit files. The libeconf project is gaining traction and is already supported upstream in many of our core components. Introducing this library now for people to hopefully play around with it before a potential future discussion if this is something that should be widely adopted in core components in debian. (I would be very happy if someone else took over the maintenance of this package going forward.) Regards, Andreas Henriksson
