[Pkg-freedict-devel] Goals & plans

[Kęstutis Biliūnas]

Hi,

It looks, that we must change a little the goals of this "Debian
FreeDict Packages" project. In most cases we won't be able to build
debian packages from the upstream .src.tar.bz2 archives, because we
can't to depend on the Internet connection at the build time (for
downloading lang.zip files from http://download.travlang.com) and we
can't to depend on the non free OS (M$ Windows) and non free
applications (M$ Access for converting .mdb files to .tei files).
And for some dictionaries, which do not require to download the
databases from http://download.travlang.com, the build process depends
on 'mbrdico' package (through the teiaddphonetics script). We can't to
add 'mbrdico' package to debian because of non free license, or perhaps
we can add it to the non-free branch, but in this case we also need to
move all freedict dictionary packages from main to non-free.

But the upstream promises to distribute the lang1-lang2-tei.tar.bz2
archives (Michael, is it a truth?). These archives will be distributed
with the GPL license. From these fully prepared .tei files we could
build the .dict.dz and .index files for debian binary packages using
the only free and existing in debian distribution tools. Therefore only
these -tei.tar.bz2 files can be used as source archives for building
debian packages for main branch of Debian distribution.  

Joost, I think that we will fall to remove the teiaddphonetics script
from the freedict-tools-dev package (because it depends on mbrdico).

So, I think, that we have made the good initial work on this "Debian
FreeDict Packages" project, but now we must wait while the upstream will
release the new freedict-tools archive and begins to release the
-tei.tar.bz2 files.

What do you think about this? 
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Kęstutis Biliūnas <kebil at kaunas.init.lt>
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