[pkg-crosswire-devel] Compiling modules from source

[Bastian Germann]

Am 11.11.20 um 14:03 schrieb Teus Benschop:
> On Wed, 11 Nov 2020 at 13:56, Bastian Germann <bastiangermann at fishpost.de>
> wrote:
> 
>> 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.
>>
>> The locations of the source usually are listed in the .conf files in the
> mods.d folder as listed in Salsa.
> 
> Just checking on the KJV module configuration file at [1], there appear to
> be multiple sources:
> 
> TextSource=bf.org, eBible.org, https://sites.google.com/a/wmail.fi/greeknt/
> home/greeknt, crosswire.org
> 
> [1]
> https://salsa.debian.org/pkg-crosswire-team/sword-text-kjv/-/blob/master/mods.d/kjv.conf

The TextSource is not really helpful because it represents the raw
sources for the OSIS file. But we need the URL for the OSIS file itself.
I can find an OSIS archive for KJV at eBible.org. But that does not
correspond to the 2.9 version that is on the Crosswire archive.

I have implemented a build for OSIS files for sword-text-web. On the
first try I have the New Testament building reproducibly. The Old
Testament does not build reproducibly. I guess there is an issue with
the apocrypha or it is just the compression that is a bit different.
Maybe someone else wants to have a look.