[pkg-crosswire-devel] Huge version bump in package sword-text-web

[Teus Benschop]

On Wed, 11 Nov 2020 at 13:47, Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto at debian.org> wrote:

> 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.
>
>
I agree with what Roberto says, and it could well be that upstream has
scripts that they use to build their modules truly from their sources.