Bug#390281: RFP: ocre -- optical character recognition (OCR) easy
Hi!
* W. Borgert <debacle@debian.org> [060930 15:04]:
> > Upstream author is offereing debian packages in his homepage, wouldn't
> > it be possible to offer him sponsorship? Didn't take a deeper look at
> > the packages.
> The source code package seems not to be in perfect shape yet.
Not, that was why I was ofering him guidance / mentoring (that's
included in my definition of "sponsorship ;)
> I don't know how upstream built the .deb, as I could not find
> a ./debian/ directory nor could I compile the source code at
> all.
Found regular source packages here:
ftp://lem.eui.upm.es/pub/lemdeb/dists/stable/main/source/misc
Still some work to do.
> This package should taken by a developer with some knowledge of
> the Spanish language, as I would not be able to maintain a
> software, where file and function names (and code comments and
> installation instructions!) are not in English.
Hmm... perhaps someone from the spanish crowd?
> Maybe there should be a policy, that non-English source code is
> not allowed in Debian, because it makes maintainance very hard,
> e.g. in case the security team has to fix sth. and the code is
> obfuscated by using non-English variable names etc. :-(
Hmmm... that discussion doesn't belong in this bug report, but to the
project list. But I don't think it would be a good idea.
Yours sincerely,
Alexander
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