[Debian-hebrew-common] Fwd: [Debian-hebrew-package] hocr bugfixing

[kobi zamir]

the main part of the bug reports are about sane-pygtk and not about libhocr

sane-pygtk is a sane front-end for using scanner much simpler then
xsane, skanlite
http://www.sane-project.org/sane-frontends.html
http://sane-pygtk.sourceforge.net/index.html

people with no interest in hebrew ocr install the hocr package to get
this utility.

can you separate the libhocr package to ?
a. libhocr - just the without the sane-pygtk parts
b. sane-pygtk - just the sane-pygtk utility

as i promised a few months ago i will incorporate the patches (?) this
(?) weekend to the
code in http://sane-pygtk.sourceforge.net.
i will probably remove the sane-pygtk parts from libhocr in the next
release (when that will happen :-) )

kobi

On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 12:23 AM, Lior Kaplan <kaplan at debian.org> wrote:
> Moving Oron's mail to the "right" mailinglist.
>
> As Kobi is part of this list, I think we should let him decide about how to
> go forward with this:
> 1. Upload the patches to Debian as Kobi is busy.
> 2. Fix the code "upstream" and update the distributions.
>
> Kobi ?
>
> p.s.
> Oron, thanks for thinking about the distro cooperation.
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Oron Peled <oron at actcom.co.il>
> Date: Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 1:58 AM
> Subject: [Debian-hebrew-package] hocr bugfixing
> To: Debian Hebrew Packaging Team
> <debian-hebrew-package at lists.alioth.debian.org>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> There are a bunch of bug-reports against libhocr Fedora package
> which I maintain:
>
>  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?component=libhocr&product=Fedora
>
> Some of these bugs were trivial enough to fix, so I fixed them.
> There are still some problem with this approach:
>  * There is no central location for these patches. On the project
>   page (http://developer.berlios.de/projects/hocr/) the "submit bugs"
>   entry report that the bug tracker is turned off for this project.
>  * Same goes for discussion forums.
>  * No mailing list.
>  * No release of patched source code for almost 2 years.
>
> I found Kobi's mail address and sent him privately the patches
> some 3 months ago. He politely acknowledged them, but the source was
> not yet modified.
>
> <note>
>  please do not try to interpret this as a rant on Kobi -- it's not!
>  I realise he is probably very busy, just like it happens to me many
>  times. I only try to contact other package maintainers to seek
>  their ideas on how to handle this.
> </note>
>
> I decided to look for other packagers that maintain this package and
> see what is their situation:
>  * Debian -- changelog shows 1 release since 2007. No bugs listed
>   (except one new packaging problem in sid)
>  * Ubuntu -- you are also listed as maintainers for Ubuntu (two for
>   the price of one, that's good ;-)
>  * Opensuse -- only some broken package named hocr-tools (didn't waste
>   more time on this)
>  * Mandriva -- Google (mandriva hocr) didn't bring any substance :-O
>
> So, it's only you guys (and girl's) and me. First, here are direct
> links, so you can decide if you want to patch your packages:
>  * The closed bugs:
>     https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/libhocr-0.10.17-6.fc13
>  * The patches (the *.patch files):
>     http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/rpms/libhocr/F-13/
>
> If anyone have an idea how to better support this package, please chime in.
>
> --
> Oron Peled                                 Voice: +972-4-8228492
> oron at actcom.co.il                  http://users.actcom.co.il/~oron
> "Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly."
>         (H. Spencer)
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