Bug 427638

Summary:	Wishlist: please split libmspack from cabextract
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Brad Hards <bradh>
Component:	cabextract	Assignee:	Rex Dieter <rdieter>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Brad Hards 2008-01-06 03:11:46 UTC

Description of problem:
Cabextract package should be split into cabextract application and libmspack

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Future.

How reproducible:
Always

Additional info:
The cabextract application is logically the libmspack library and the 
cabextract binary. Fedora currently packages them as a single binary, which 
makes it hard to use libmspack separately. 

As a result, applications needing similar functionality (samba, clamav) have 
imported copies of this code.

libmspack is packaged separately by Debian and Suse, and this would be useful 
to me.

Comment 1 Patrice Dumas 2008-01-17 21:43:57 UTC

In fact they are difference packages. cabextract is the utility 
we ship and libmspack is at
http://www.cabextract.org.uk/libmspack/

What we should do is build cabextract against this library
instead of using the internal copy in cabextract.

I have added this package to the wishlist
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/WishList

Comment 2 Patrice Dumas 2008-01-17 21:50:00 UTC

And also send a message on the devel mailing list.

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Comment 4 Brad Hards 2008-11-26 09:53:00 UTC

Don't have Fedora 10 yet, but still exists in Fedora 9.

Comment 5 Patrice Dumas 2008-11-26 10:25:06 UTC

libmspack is now in fedora so we can close this. However cabextract still uses an internal version, and, as far as I can tell, nothing uses libmspack which is a bit dubious.

In any case both libmspack and cabextract look pretty dead upstream. Though maybe it is because they are very stable?

In any case, the current sources are exactly the same, so closing as review request duplicate.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 429444 ***