[pkg-crosswire-devel] Compiling modules from source

[Bastian Germann]

Am 11.11.20 um 13:46 schrieb Roberto C. Sánchez:
> On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 01:43:12PM +0100, Bastian Germann wrote:
>> One more thing about the sword modules in Debian: They are not actually
>> built from source. Maybe this should be changed? I guess it would not be
>> trivial to produce bit-by-bit identical modules to the ftp versions but
>> maybe you have thoughts on this.
>>
> I ran into this about three years ago when I uploaded sword-comm-mhc
> (the complete Matthew Henry commentary; we already have the concise
> version in Debian).  In any event, the fact that the build "starts" with
> what are effectively binary blobs was the principal objection of the FTP
> Masters when they rejected sword-comm-mhc.
> 
> It would be good if we could sort this out for the existing modules and
> also so that we are able to get sword-comm-mhc into Debian.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -Roberto
> 

Okay. Is there any "official" place where the sources for the Crosswire
modules are published? I only know of
https://gitlab.com/crosswire-bible-society but that does not seem to be
complete.

For the WEB bible (ebible.org) the source is obvious and even signed.