Bug#504058: Zotero license and what packaging benefit?

[Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>]

On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 03:06:22AM -0500, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote:
> > The extension can be easily downloaded from zotero.org & works as-is  
> > under Debian.  It is unclear to me what benefit making a package would  
> > bring.

now that I am trying it -- here is 1 Debian-specifics, which would be a
hint to future packager (hopefully not me)

zotero needs pdftotext and pdfinfo tools to be present or otherwise
suggests to download them for you and place in its directory.
It does not find them in the PATH (ie /usr/bin/) and for each of them it
requires .version file... so now I have :

   0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 yoh yoh      16 2008-12-14 03:23 pdfinfo-Linux-x86_64 -> /usr/bin/pdfinfo*
   4 -rw-r--r-- 1 yoh yoh       4 2008-12-14 03:22 pdfinfo-Linux-x86_64.version
 844 -rwxr-xr-x 1 yoh yoh  857176 2008-12-14 03:22 pdfinfo-Linux-x86_64.zotero*
   0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 yoh yoh      18 2008-12-14 03:23 pdftotext-Linux-x86_64 -> /usr/bin/pdftotext*
   4 -rw-r--r-- 1 yoh yoh       4 2008-12-14 03:22 pdftotext-Linux-x86_64.version
 912 -rwxr-xr-x 1 yoh yoh  925816 2008-12-14 03:22 pdftotext-Linux-x86_64.zotero*

.zoterro are the versions installed by zoterro, so I just replaced by the
symlinks to current ones... it might be evil if internally zotero uses
different switches depending on the verion.

so, zotero installs version 3.02 of those tools while debian's poppler-utils
carries 3.00.  but I would still vote to check if it is ok to use 3.00
and still with the ones which are shipped with Debian (thus 'Suggests:
popler-utils' for the tentative package


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