Hi,
First of all thanks to Kestutis (Sorry for name's spelling, I am using
ISO-8859-15 on this computer) for his work on this package.
I was about to upload Kestutis Biliunas package, when I saw recent
activities in the BTS. That's why I am sending this email.
On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 10:48:14AM +0300, K?stutis Bili?nas wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am looking for a sponsor for dict-freedict packages. They are
> already in Debian, but was orphaned by previous maintainer
> John Goerzen. This consist the 47 binary packages. There is the
> extract from the .changes file:
>
> ----->8---------->8---------->8-----
> Closes: 145584 148209 154537 159304 164559 164838 174695 179281 186044
> 205417 206113 215001 215014 222853 226895 226904 284496 302549 309814
> 310857 317078 318024 320474
> Changes:
> freedict (1.2-1) unstable; urgency=low
> .
> * New maintainer (Closes: #206113).
Do not worry if I set my name as uploader, so that it's easy for me to
track packages I am sponsoring.
> * Updated with the new upstream versions (all, except eng-hun,
> hun-eng and eng-por) (Closes: #148209, #154537) . Added new
> dictionaries: eng-ara, eng-rom, eng-scr, ita-eng (Closes: #309814)
> and wel-eng. So, the source tarbal version bumped to 1.2.
Is upstream always active ? I saw that tarball where build in 2003. Ok,
languages do not evolve quickly, but I wonder if typoes are fixed or not
upstream.
> * All the dictionaries unformated, fixed the headers, removed the
> many duplicated entries for most words in the dictionaries (but
> not all) (Closes: #186044), and formated using locale en_US.UTF-8
> again (Closes: #145584, #164559, #222853, #320474):
> - now all dictionaries have header 00-database-utf8 in dict
> files (Closes: #174695, #317078).
Did you send your patches about utf-8 upstream ? I think that your way
to build the package address all the problem described in BR like
#222853, Michael or Bob, do you argree with my statement about that point?
> - fixed some spelling mistakes in the eng-fra dictionary
> (Closes: #302549, #310857).
> - changed incorrect entry for "elemination" to "elimination" in the
> eng-deu dictionary (Closes: #284496).
> - corrected the references to "Africaan" in the afr-deu dictionary
> to "Afrikaans" (Closes: #318024).
What about those typo ? Did you forward it upstream ?
> * Changed files debian/{postinst, postrm} (Closes: #215001).
> * Added the file debian/README.Debian with a note about encoding.
> Added the warning about setting locale in /etc/defaults/dictd to
> the file debian/postinst (Closes: #179281, #226895, #159304).
> * Removed the files from debian directory: control.tmpl,
> gencontrol.py and namefixup.py (no need any more)
> (Closes: #215014).
> * debian/control:
> - bumped Standards-Version to 3.6.2 (no changes required).
> - removed Build-Depends on python2.3 and python2.3-dictdlib
> packages and added Build-Depends on dictfmt and locales packages.
> - removed dict-freedict meta-package, and added providing the
> virtual dict-freedict package (Closes: #205417).
> - added the new binary packages for dictionaries eng-ara, eng-rom,
> eng-scr, ita-eng and wel-eng.
> - slo-eng package description changed to "Slovak-..." instead of
> "Slovenian-..." (Closes: #164838).
> * debian/copyright:
> - fixed the text formating (Closes: #226904).
> - changed the postall adress of the FSF.
> ----->8---------->8---------->8-----
>
> The packages is linda, lintian clean and builds with pbuilder.
It looks like perfect to me. Kestutis, please take the time to discuss
on the bug tracking system. I am not sure that Michael was aware that
you were working on this package. Wnpp bugs are not reported in the same
category. I think we should improve it.
I'll upload the package in 7 days if nobody objects. I add some bugs in
blind carbon copy. (Those that adress issues with encoding)
The packages are available on kebil's repository at
http://kebil.ghost.lt/debian/pool/freedict/
deb http://kebil.ghost.lt/ debian/
deb-src http://kebil.ghost.lt/ debian/
Cheers,
--
Pierre Machard
<pmachard@debian.org> http://debian.org
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