[pkg-crosswire-devel] Fwd: sword-comm-mhc_2.0-1_amd64.changes REJECTED

[Bastian Germann]

Am 28.08.21 um 15:10 schrieb Roberto C. Sánchez:
> On Sat, Aug 28, 2021 at 02:07:18PM +0200, Teus Benschop wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> The package was rejected. It was because the copyright didn't match with
>> the DFSG.
>>
>> On thinking about this, I think that it does not in any way impact users
>> who want to use the commentary that was to be included in the package.
>> Everyone can install it from the online Crosswire repositories.
>>
>> Taking it one step further, my question is what the additional value of
>> this package would have been in the first place?
>>
>> Was it to assist people who don't have any internet connection, or who for
>> certain reasons don't want to use that?
>>
> Several years ago I took it upon myself to package some of what I
> thought would be the most common and useful modules.  It feels "better"
> to me to be able to install components via apt rather than downloading
> modules, for example here with Sword modules, CPAN modules, Python
> modules, etc.  It simplifies deploying across multiple machines, where I
> can deploy a meta-package that pulls in the necessary package as a
> dependency, rather than having to script the installation of an external
> component.  Just a preference on my part.

The downside of packaging the CrossWire modules is that they are not 
very good at keeping their source updated to the same version that is 
published as binaries on their FTP server. Also, the copyright 
information is sometimes inaccurate, which is the case with the MHC 
module. Lafricain has improved the situation a lot compared to what it was.

I think, the baseline for our modules should be to meet Debian Policy. 
Two of them will be autoremoved if the source does not appear in the 
next two weeks, and I think that is okay.

For the other modules, there are still #985655 and #985656, which are 
actually also Policy violations and could have a higher priority. I do 
not have experience of converting USFX/USFM to OSIS/Sword and there are 
several programs out there that do that. The affected modules' source 
eBible uses Haiola, but I think having that in Debian just for this 
reason will be too much work. So, alternatively we could package 
usfm2osis (which version?) or u2o. Any thoughts on this?