[Bug 479951] New: Review Request: iniparser - a library for parsing ini-style files

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Summary: Review Request: iniparser - a library for parsing ini-style files

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=479951

           Summary: Review Request: iniparser - a library for parsing
                    ini-style files
           Product: Fedora
           Version: rawhide
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: medium
          Priority: low
         Component: Package Review
        AssignedTo: nobody at fedoraproject.org
        ReportedBy: fedora at alexhudson.com
         QAContact: extras-qa at fedoraproject.org
                CC: notting at redhat.com, fedora-package-review at redhat.com
   Estimated Hours: 0.0
    Classification: Fedora


Spec URL: http://www.alexhudson.com/fedora/iniparser/iniparser.spec
SRPM URL:
http://www.alexhudson.com/fedora/iniparser/iniparser-3.0b-1.fc10.src.rpm
Description: 
IniParser is a simple ANSI-C library used by other applications to parse
"ini-style" files as used mainly on Windows.

There is a small problem with this library; it doesn't come with a "full" build
system - it has a Makefile which compiles the library, but doesn't even have
"make install", thus the manual fiddling around in the spec file.

I suspect this makes the -debuginfo package less useful - it doesn't come with
copies of the source, for example. 

Another issue is that the library is simply called libiniparser.so.0 - there is
no minor version. I imagine this would make it difficult to correctly work out
dependencies (for example, if new API was added to the library later and an
application wished to declare that dependency) - however, there is also a
compatibility issue there if it's changed just for Fedora?

I'm contemplating writing a patch which would effectively drop in a more
standard autotools build, but would appreciate any easier ideas.

Also, this is only the second package I've submitted and I'm not a package
maintainer (yet, hopefully ;)

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