Bug#860579: ITP: grammalecte -- grammatical corrector for libreoffice and firefox
On 2017-04-19 08:50:00, Sébastien Villemot wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Apr 2017 17:30:35 -0400 Antoine Beaupre <anarcat@debian.org>
> wrote:
>> Package: wnpp
>> Severity: wishlist
>> Owner: Antoine Beaupre <anarcat@debian.org>
>>
>> * Package name : grammalecte
>
> […]
>
>> Someone discussed maintaining this in Debian 3 years ago on their
>> forum:
>>
>> https://www.dicollecte.org/thread.php?prj=fr&t=414
>
> Indeed I have considered packaging grammalecte in Debian, but it turned
> out to be non-free (because of lacking source for one of the core
> files, see the discussion on the forum).
>
> Last time I checked, the problem was still not solved.
>
> Hopefully you’ll find a solution with upstream author, but 3 years ago
> he refused to publish the full source code.
That's kind of strange, given that he forked GPL software... I did not
quite understand this from the thread linked above - he was just saying
that he had this one unpublished patch...
But now it seems like the source code is available:
http://www.dicollecte.org/grammalecte/oxt/Grammalecte-v0.5.15.7z
I was able to build the LibreOffice extension there - at least the build
completed. I'm still missing the Firefox extension, because the "jpm"
package is missing in Debian - and anyways he will switch to "web-ext".
I'm also quite unclear on how to actually install that thing - while it
is Python, it's using a completely custom build system that doesn't seem
to have an "install" target...
When I replied to your thread, he moved the conversation over this other
forum here:
https://www.dicollecte.org/thread.php?prj=fr&t=620
There is more documentation on how to build grammalecte there...
I'm trying to convince him to use more standard packaging practices for
the benefit of all, but it seems like I will lose that battle. :)
A.
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