[Pkg-crosswire-devel] man page for diatheke

[Jonathan Marsden]

Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote, replying to me:

>> Looks like Dima merged this one into the bzr repo already.

> Haven't even read it =DDD

You know, I'd say you're usually expected to test changes locally at
least a *little*, before committing them to a repository -- that applies
to documentation changes as well as to code changes :)

>> As is, it talks about the script option being broken... is that now
>> fixed?  Or is it really an underlying libsword (maybe ICU/no-ICU)
>> related problem?

Attempting to begin to answer my own question, I have tested this, very
simplistically, using the example from the diatheke usage text:

  sudo installmgr -ri CrossWire WHNU
  diatheke -b WHNU -t Latin -o mn -k Mt 24

and the resulting transliterated text looks sane to me (my Greek is
extremely poor, verging on non-existent, I confess, but I did at one
time do some basic NT Greek self-study).

Is there someone who was using diatheke back in 2006 who can remember
this bug?  Or anyone who can try "our" version of diatheke from the PPA
and try to duplicate the bug?

> I think *when* GnomeSword will make it into PPA it will be a good idea
> to create a wiki with everything we want to be tested and ask all crosswire
> related mailinglists to test it and report back.

Grin... I got an email announcing FTBFS for every single one of the the
27 GnomeSword build attempts you asked the Ubuntu buildd's to perform
earlier today...!  Keep at it, but I suggest that you should consider
building it (sucessfully) in a pbuilder locally before asking that much
effort from the buildd's :)

And yes, once we have packages that seem to work "for us" (meaning for
us as a team, not just for the one person who packaged them), we can ask
the wider CrossWire community for help with testing.  This is only Day 4
of our team existence... I think we're doing pretty well so far.

Jonathan