Bug#864828: ITP: sogoupinyin-installer -- Sogou Pinyin Input Method installer
On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 09:38:53PM +0800, Shengjing Zhu wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Shengjing Zhu <i@zhsj.me>
>
> * Package name : sogoupinyin-installer
> Version : 2.1.0.0086~1
> Upstream Author : Shengjing Zhu<i@zhsj.me>
> * URL : https://pinyin.sogou.com/linux/
> * License : GPL-3
> Programming Lang: Shell
> Description : Sogou Pinyin Input Method installer
>
> Based on web search engine technology, Sogou Pinyin input method is
> the next-generation input method designed for Internet users. As it
> is backed with search engine technology, user input method can be
> extremely fast, and it is much more advanced than other input method
> engines in terms of the volume of the vocabulary database and its
> accuracy. Sogou input method is the most popular input methods in
> China, and Sogou promises it will always be free of charge.
> .
> Note: this package does not contain any software from Sogou Inc. This
> package does however contain a script to download and install Sogou
> Pinyin.
>
>
> Please also include as much relevant information as possible.
> For example, consider answering the following questions:
> - why is this package useful/relevant? is it a dependency for
> another package? do you use it? if there are other packages
> providing similar functionality, how does it compare?
>
> Sogou Pinyin is popular among Chinese users. This package will help
> people install it.
>
> - how do you plan to maintain it? inside a packaging team
> (check list at https://wiki.debian.org/Teams)? are you
> looking for co-maintainers? do you need a sponsor?
>
> This package will be maintained in pkg-ime team.
Please excuse if this covered somewhere on the project webpage,
but as I don't understand chinese and the website doesn't seem to
have an english version, I currently don't understand a few
things about this ITP.
As far as I understand it, this is about providing means for
entering chinese characters by using a transliterated form in
roman characters, based on the sound of the spoken word.
You write "License: GPL-3", but according to the description,
this is only a downloader script that downloads a precompiled
binary from somewhere else. Under which license is the actual
application code available? Why isn't the actual application
packaged for Debian instead?
What does "is backed with search engine technology" mean in
detail? Does the application send all user input to an online
service to to do the actual transliteration work? If yes, I
would consider that unsuitable for an inclusion into Debian
on privacy grounds.
Regards,
Karsten
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