On Sat, Aug 23, 2003 at 06:22:53PM -0400, Bob Hilliard wrote: > I intend to adopt freedict, which was recently orphaned. > dict-freedict consists of 42 utf-8 encoded bi-lingual > dictionaries. In the past dict-freedict has included pre-formatted > dictionaries downloaded from www.freedict.de. However, these > pre-formatted dictionaries do not work with modern versions of dictd. > In the dict-* packages that I maintain, I have always formatted > the dictionary as part of the build process. This presents a problem > for the dict-freedict package, in that a xx_YY.utf-8 locale must be > available on the build machine. AFAIK there is no way to guarantee > that a specific locale is available on the buildds. It would be > possible for debian/rules to generate a xx_YY.utf-8 locale, but this > would require rules to run as root, which is not permissible by > policy. > The simplest approach would be to format the dictionaries on my > machine, and include them in the source package. This would be > similar to the previous dict-freedict packages. Would this be > acceptable? By analogy with pre-generated output of lex, bison, and autoconf, I think it would be acceptable to include the preformatted dictionaries in the source package so long as the true source form of the dictionaries is also included. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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