<div dir="ltr">Moving Oron's mail to the "right" mailinglist.<br><br>As Kobi is part of this list, I think we should let him decide about how to go forward with this:<br>1. Upload the patches to Debian as Kobi is busy.<br>
2. Fix the code "upstream" and update the distributions.<br><br>Kobi ?<br><br>p.s.<br>Oron, thanks for thinking about the distro cooperation.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>
From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Oron Peled</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:oron@actcom.co.il">oron@actcom.co.il</a>></span><br>Date: Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 1:58 AM<br>Subject: [Debian-hebrew-package] hocr bugfixing<br>
To: Debian Hebrew Packaging Team <<a href="mailto:debian-hebrew-package@lists.alioth.debian.org">debian-hebrew-package@lists.alioth.debian.org</a>><br><br><br>Hi,<br>
<br>
There are a bunch of bug-reports against libhocr Fedora package<br>
which I maintain:<br>
<br>
<a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?component=libhocr&product=Fedora" target="_blank">https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?component=libhocr&product=Fedora</a><br>
<br>
Some of these bugs were trivial enough to fix, so I fixed them.<br>
There are still some problem with this approach:<br>
* There is no central location for these patches. On the project<br>
page (<a href="http://developer.berlios.de/projects/hocr/" target="_blank">http://developer.berlios.de/projects/hocr/</a>) the "submit bugs"<br>
entry report that the bug tracker is turned off for this project.<br>
* Same goes for discussion forums.<br>
* No mailing list.<br>
* No release of patched source code for almost 2 years.<br>
<br>
I found Kobi's mail address and sent him privately the patches<br>
some 3 months ago. He politely acknowledged them, but the source was<br>
not yet modified.<br>
<br>
<note><br>
please do not try to interpret this as a rant on Kobi -- it's not!<br>
I realise he is probably very busy, just like it happens to me many<br>
times. I only try to contact other package maintainers to seek<br>
their ideas on how to handle this.<br>
</note><br>
<br>
I decided to look for other packagers that maintain this package and<br>
see what is their situation:<br>
* Debian -- changelog shows 1 release since 2007. No bugs listed<br>
(except one new packaging problem in sid)<br>
* Ubuntu -- you are also listed as maintainers for Ubuntu (two for<br>
the price of one, that's good ;-)<br>
* Opensuse -- only some broken package named hocr-tools (didn't waste<br>
more time on this)<br>
* Mandriva -- Google (mandriva hocr) didn't bring any substance :-O<br>
<br>
So, it's only you guys (and girl's) and me. First, here are direct<br>
links, so you can decide if you want to patch your packages:<br>
* The closed bugs:<br>
<a href="https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/libhocr-0.10.17-6.fc13" target="_blank">https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/libhocr-0.10.17-6.fc13</a><br>
* The patches (the *.patch files):<br>
<a href="http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/rpms/libhocr/F-13/" target="_blank">http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/rpms/libhocr/F-13/</a><br>
<br>
If anyone have an idea how to better support this package, please chime in.<br>
<br>
--<br>
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