[Pkg-crosswire-devel] List-missing - icu translit files

[Matthew Talbert]

On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 7:21 AM, Dmitrijs Ledkovs
<dmitrij.ledkov at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've used list-missing target from utils.mk during libsword build and
> I found that these files were not installed into any of the deb
> packages:
>
> -./usr/lib/sword/1.5.11_icu_3.8.1/translit_Any_Latex.res
> -./usr/lib/sword/1.5.11_icu_3.8.1/translit_Any_Latin1.res
> -./usr/lib/sword/1.5.11_icu_3.8.1/translit_BETA_Greek.res
> -./usr/lib/sword/1.5.11_icu_3.8.1/translit_BGreek_Greek.res
> -./usr/lib/sword/1.5.11_icu_3.8.1/translit_CCAT_Hebrew.res
> -./usr/lib/sword/1.5.11_icu_3.8.1/translit_CCAT_Syriac.res
> -./usr/lib/sword/1.5.11_icu_3.8.1/translit_Latin_Arabic.res
> -./usr/lib/sword/1.5.11_icu_3.8.1/translit_Latin_Armenian.res
> -./usr/lib/sword/1.5.11_icu_3.8.1/translit_Latin_Coptic.res
> -./usr/lib/sword/1.5.11_icu_3.8.1/translit_Latin_Ethiopic.res
> -./usr/lib/sword/1.5.11_icu_3.8.1/translit_Latin_Georgian.res
> -./usr/lib/sword/1.5.11_icu_3.8.1/translit_Latin_Gothic.res
> -./usr/lib/sword/1.5.11_icu_3.8.1/translit_Latin_Hebrew.res
> -./usr/lib/sword/1.5.11_icu_3.8.1/translit_Latin_Syriac.res
> -./usr/lib/sword/1.5.11_icu_3.8.1/translit_Latin_Thai.res
> -./usr/lib/sword/1.5.11_icu_3.8.1/translit_Latin_Ugaritic.res
> -./usr/lib/sword/1.5.11_icu_3.8.1/translit_swordindex.res
>
> What do they do? Shall they be in libsword package?

These files are the data that allow transliteration in frontends (ie,
reading Greek text with Latin characters). As this is a primary
benefit of using ICU at all, it is important that they be included.

I have already had a report that they were missing. I forgot to pass
it on here, sorry.

Matthew