Hello, allow me in introduce myself, my name is Chris and I am a trainee Ubuntu developer/packager. I am willing to help contribute to the Debian project of packaging Crosswire's software as well as of course uploading to the Ubuntu repos. When I find the time I shall of course help upgrade at least one of the packages. <br>
<br>Regards,<br>Chris.<br><blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 0pt;"><hr>
<strong>Christopher Swift</strong><br>
Swansea, Wales<br>
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<i><Chris@Chrisswift.eu></i></blockquote><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 11:06 PM, Norbert Bollow <span dir="ltr"><nb@bollow.ch></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 01:45:14 +0000<br>
From: Refdoc <<a href="mailto:refdoc@crosswire.org" target="_blank">refdoc@crosswire.org</a>><br>
To: <a href="mailto:ubuntu-motu@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">ubuntu-motu@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br>
Subject: Gnomesword, libsword, diatheke, sword modules, bibletime<br>
<br>
Hi,<br>
<br>
I am one of the developers at CrossWire. Several of our programmes are<br>
in your repository, but they are ancient, often 2 or more releases<br>
behind us.<br>
<br>
I have tried on several occasions to contact the maintainer listed but<br>
to little avail.<br>
<br>
I asked eventually on #ubuntu-devel and was advised to mail to you.<br>
<br>
As we see it, following is wrong:<br>
<br>
1) libsword is at 1.5.11 - if you wait a couple of weeks probably at<br>
1.5.12. You keep 1.5.9. 1.5.9 is nearly 2 years old. The functional<br>
increase is massive.<br>
<br>
2) libsword should be compiled with ICU to allow it full function. It is<br>
not.<br>
<br>
3) you should not maintain sword modules as all our programmes have a<br>
module manager which will download modules directly. Installing modules<br>
via apt-get renders the module manager non-functional as the modules are<br>
installed by apt-get into non user writable areas (/usr/share/sword<br>
instead of ~/.sword)<br>
<br>
4) diatheke is a commandline utility which can if carefully handled also<br>
be used as a base for CGI script. The example CGI code coming along with<br>
it is not meant to be exposed to the internet - at least not in this<br>
form. Therefore the dependency on Apache is wrong. Most users will use<br>
diatheke only as commandline routine, never as CGI.<br>
<br>
5) Gnomesword is ancient history. All bug reports you have on file for<br>
GS are sorted in upodated versions. Our last release was 2.4.1. we are<br>
currently moving towards the next release - a week or two.<br>
<br>
There is probably more to it, but to be honest for years now we direct<br>
everyone to our own debs as Ubuntu and Debian are so out of date.<br>
<br>
I would therefore extremely grateful if someone could take this one up<br>
or advise us how to go about submitting a new set of packages ourselves.<br>
<br>
Thanks!<br>
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<br>
In the Ubuntu bugtracker we currently have the following "needs<br>
updating to upstream version" bugs<br>
<br>
<a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sword/+bug/320558" target="_blank">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sword/+bug/320558</a><br>
<a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnomesword/+bug/295389" target="_blank">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnomesword/+bug/295389</a><br>
<a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bibletime/+bug/320541" target="_blank">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bibletime/+bug/320541</a><br>
<br>
I'd suggest that we should also look at the following and try to make<br>
sure that the next package version closes them:<br>
<br>
<br>
"gnomesword crashes when looking up a word in Strong's dictionary"<br>
<a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnomesword/+bug/87691" target="_blank">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnomesword/+bug/87691</a><br>
<br>
"gnomesword2 dictionaries not functioning"<br>
<a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnomesword/+bug/164152" target="_blank">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnomesword/+bug/164152</a><br>
<br>
"launching personal notes crashes gnomesword"<br>
<a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnomesword/+bug/150425" target="_blank">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnomesword/+bug/150425</a><br>
<br>
"GnomeSword dependency wrongly installs Arabic bible"<br>
<a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnomesword/+bug/231886" target="_blank">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnomesword/+bug/231886</a><br>
<br>
<br>
Greetings,<br>
Norbert<br>
<br>
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