Bug#504058: Zotero license and what packaging benefit?

[Richard Karnesky <karnesky@gmail.com>]

Yaroslav Halchenko wrote:
>> It is unclear to me what benefit making a package would  
>> bring.
> exactly the same benefits as any other package of firefox extension:

Presumably these benefits are minor, as there are relatively few firefox
extensions in the package repositories.


> zotero needs pdftotext and pdfinfo tools to be present or otherwise
> suggests to download them for you and place in its directory.

In the past, at least, zotero needed /modified/ versions of these
utilities.  The system-supplied versions may or may not work now (I
haven't checked; I advised them how to make them work on all platforms,
but I don't think they've pushed these changes yet).  The changes to
these utilities are minor (e.g. adding file output), but have not been
accepted by upstream as far as I know.