NOTES_TO_PACKAGE_MAINTAINERS

   1 To: distribution package maintainers
   2
   3 Those are a few things about this project that you should know.
   4
   5 Both spec file and debian/ are up for adoption. The spec file
   6 is most often up to date to handle current HEAD of the tree.
   7 The debian/ directory is probably obsoleted vs current
   8 Debian packaging guidelines.
   9
  10 I surely welcome patches to support both in a better way.
  11
  12 DO NOT ship kronosnetd. It's an experimental piece of super
  13 crappy code. IF you decide to ship it anyway, you get to
  14 be also the upstream maintainer :-) you have been warned.
  15
  16 libtap is a simple commodity library used only by kronosnetd.
  17 I don't mind to support it, but don't ship just for the fun of it.
  18 It has no users, that I know of, outside of kronosnetd.
  19
  20 libknet is still under heavy development. There might be more
  21 onwire network changes that could make current version
  22 incompatible with newer versions. Make sure to warn your users
  23 about it. Plan is to release a stable version (1.0) when
  24 we are confident that the current implementation is stable enough.
  25
  26 libknet has a lot of build dependencies due to its modular
  27 implementation. It does not, however, link with all those libraries
  28 but uses a dlopen model to save runtime resources and provide
  29 flexibility to users to install only the libraries they are
  30 planning to use. Make sure that you do build with all feature
  31 enabled (compatible with your distribution licencing/patent
  32 policy of course) and tune your packaging to Recommend/Suggest
  33 the external libraries.
  34
  35 Thanks
  36 Your upstream maintainers