Bug#278978: ITP: gutenbrowser -- Project Gutenberg Etext reader

[Lorn Potter <lpotter@trolltech.com>]

On Sunday 31 October 2004 4:11 am, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
>
> * Package name    : gutenbrowser
>   Version         : 0.7.43
>   Upstream Author : Lorn Potter <lpotter@trolltech.com>
> * URL             : http://sourceforge.net/projects/gutenbrowser
> * License         : GPL
>   Description     : Project Gutenberg Etext reader
>
>  gutenbrowser is a reader for etexts produced by Project Gutenberg. It
>  integrates with KDE. You only need the libraries to run it though.
>  .
>  Project Gutenberg (http://promo.net/pg/index.html) aims to make public
>  domain literature available to the world in ASCII text format.
>
> I believe it is important to make the texts of the Gutenberg project
> easily available, and that this package is the best way to do this in
> Debian.
>
> The package used to be part of Debian, but was orphaned in bug #214931
> and removed in bug #221361.  The reason was the inactivity of the
> upstream developer.
>
> As far as I can tell, the last activity in the sourceforge CVS was
> 2003-11-21, when the source for the Zaurus PDA was updated.  Because
> of this, I intend to restore this package in Debian.
>
> CC to the upstream author, to make him aware of my plans.

I am happy to say Gutenbrowser continues to live and breathe in the Opie cvs. 
I have not yet folded these changes back into gutenbrowser for desktop (at 
sourceforge). Nor have I updated this for qt 3. 
I will start by folding back into desktop, and then update for qt 3.

thanks


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Lorn 'ljp' Potter
Qtopia Community Liaison
lpotter at trolltech.com