Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name : sacc
Version : 1.07-11-gd9488c7
Upstream Contact: Quentin Rameau <quinq A fifth 0 space> (w/ Hiltjo Posthuma,
Christoph Lohmann e.a.)
* URL : https://git.fifth.space/sacc/ , git://bitreich.org/sacc
* License : MIT/X
Programming Lang: C
Description : terminal gopher client

sacc (short for saccomys) is a terminal gopher client. Gopher is a simple protocol to retrieve hierarchical information. The protocol is defined in RFC 1436. sacc also supports non-standard TLS encryption, if built with TLS support, with the gophers:// scheme.

Unlike the offpunk package which supports the http, gemini and spartan protocols next to gopher, sacc supports gopher{,s} only: One could call sacc a more focused, and thus smaller, tool.

It builds just fine on current Debian 12 bookworm stable; obviously it needs a libtls-dev build-depends.

The license looks like MIT/X to me at first sight, but has a slight difference: it states, @ git://bitreich.org/sacc LICENSE :

Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any
purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above
copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES
WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR
ANY SPECIAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES
WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN
ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF
OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.

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_If_ I find the time (ha!), I'll work on packaging sacc in the debian space on salsa.debian.org.

Bye,

Joost

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