[Pkg-freedict-devel] Goals & plans

[Joost van Baal]

Hi Kęstutis,

Op zo 11 feb 2007 om 04:36:41 +0200 schreef Kęstutis Biliūnas:
> 
> 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).

Well, I believe we can build about 50 dicts using the current free
tools.  For these, lang-lang.tei is in CVS.  I believe that's about the
same set of dicts as produced by the old style Debian freedict package.
Isn't it?

> 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.

In
http://freedict.org/debian-repository/source/mbrdico_020708-1.diff.gz,
it says:

+   This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License

Also, in
http://freedict.org/debian-repository/source/mbrdico_020708.orig.tar.gz,
mbrdico-020708.orig/Copying.txt is the GPL.

> 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.  

You should ask on freedict-beta at lists.sourceforge.net.

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

A, OK.

> 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? 

I'd like to wait till the latest uploads (freedict-swa-eng_0.0.2-1
freedict-kur-deu_0.1-1  freedict-kur-eng_0.1-1 and
freedict-kur-tur_0.1-1) get accepted by the ftp-masters in experimental.
Once these are in, I'd like to upload all other dicts which can get
build with the freedict-tools as in experimental now.

And perhaps start uploading stuff to unstable, also.

OK?

Bye,

Joost

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