Re: [ITP] sleuthkit 4.12.1

[Christian Franke <Christian.Franke@t-online.de>]

Hi Marco,

Marco Atzeri via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> On 02/03/2024 13:05, Christian Franke via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>> I would like to contribute sleuthkit. Also present in Debian, Fedora, 
>> Ubuntu, ...
>>
>> SUMMARY="Tools for analysis of volume and filesystem data"
>>
>> DESCRIPTION="The Sleuth Kit (TSK) is a collection of command line tools
>> for disk images.  It allows to analyze volume and filesystem data,
>> examine disk layout, recover deleted files, etc.  Many partition and
>> filesystem formats are supported."
>>
>> libtsk_SUMMARY="${SUMMARY} (runtime)"
>>
>> libtsk_devel_SUMMARY="${SUMMARY} (development)"
>>
>>
>> I'm not sure about the LICENSE string:
>>
>> LICENSE="CPL-1.0 AND GPL-2.0-or-later"
>>
>> The license/README.md file mentions a bunch of licenses, see comment 
>> in cygport file. CPL-1.0 is the main license, one separate tool uses 
>> GPL-2.0-or-later.
>>
>>
>> The source package supports reproducible builds except for 
>> libtsk-devel (timestamps in *.a files).
>
> Hi Christian,
>
> usually we do no distribute static library

Didn't know, sorry. Makes plenty of sense, at least to prevent that 
other packages accidentally link to the static lib.


>
> Any reason here ?

No, static lib removed.


> except that GTG
>
> $ git diff |grep "^+"
> +++ b/cygwin-pkg-maint
> +sleuthkit                                    Christian Franke
>

Thanks,
Christian