Re: RFS: tesseract (updated package), third time lucky, I hope

["Jeffrey Ratcliffe" <jeffrey.ratcliffe@gmail.com>]

On 26/09/2007, Christoph Haas <haas@debian.org> wrote:
> > and I more or less used the v1 diff as a template and just made mods
> > to get it lintian clean. I see your point, though. I assume it is
> > possible simultaneously to make the -ocr and -ocr-dev packages, just
> > defining which files go in which package. I thought defining .install
> > files would do the trick, but I am having no luck. Would you mind
> > giving me some pointers?
>
> You would need to remove the debian/tmp/usr/include files or just run
> 'make' instead of 'make install' and copy the files manually.

I got the package.install file technique working, so have uploaded the
tesseract-ocr and -dev packages to mentors.

> > > Regarding the language packages: what do they need autoconfig files
> > > (config.guess, config.sub) for?

Ahh! The rules file I took from the previous -data package was putting
them in. Fixed.

> > > IMHO the description of the language packages doesn't sound english
> > > enough (although I'm not an englishman either). Perhaps instead of
> > > "tesseract-ocr data for German" you could use something along
> > > "Data files to make tesseract recognize german images"?
> >
> > I am English, but I am prepared to change it. How about "tesseract-ocr
> > language files for German text"?

I've changed this for all the language packages and uploaded them again.

I hope that the packages are now good enough to be uploaded.

Thanks for looking at my work

Jeff