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Bug#712026: transcriber review



A new blocker:

The upstream website contains this text:

New! Jul 11 Transcriber has been superseded by TranscriberAG: see
http://transag.sourceforge.net/!

I wonder if it would be best to replace Transcriber with TranscriberAG
in Debian. TranscriberAG uses GTK+ and C++ instead of Tcl/Tk.

On Mon, 2013-08-12 at 00:05 +0200, Giulio Paci wrote:

> I do not understand what you mean.
> The whole content of debian/copyright_hints usually looks weird to me, but it is useful to:
> 1) write debian/copyright from scratch;
> 2) being notfied that new files exists or that copyright information changed.
> 
> > licensecheck complains during the build process about this.
> 
> The problem was that generated copyright_hints before applying all the patches, while at build time licensecheck is run after applying all the patches.
> I just regenerated the file.

Hmm, ok.

Maybe it would be best to drop it entirely, it doesn't seem that useful.

> > 1005_avoid_to_put_transcriber_in_background.patch looks wrong, the case
> > you patched is explicitly about putting the program in the background.
> 
> This was explicitly requested and I agreed with the person making the request.
> I see no point always putting transcriber in background when it is so easy to write "transcriber &" when needed.
> Despite the name of the variable "bg", its purpose is to detect if the program should be run in batch mode or in interactive mode.
> Upstream decided that interactive mode implies not only the use of wish instead of tclsh, but also to always start transcriber in background.

Hmm, ok.

> I do not think it is possible to solve this in transcriber. Am I wrong?

From debian/rules:

DEB_DH_INSTALL_ARGS = debian/transcriber.desktop usr/share/applications

> The sphere audio format is designed to cheat text editors: the header is 1024 bytes long and is plain ascii, so that most text editors will open the file as text.
> So it is not a text file, but a binary one.

Hmm, ok. A weird audio format, I wonder why it is used instead of just
ogg, flac or similar.

> Unless any of the following is blocker, I prefer to fix/decide to not fix them later.

None are.

-- 
bye,
pabs

http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

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