[Pkg-crosswire-devel] List of current CrossWire packaging bugs

[Christopher Swift]

Hello, allow me in introduce myself, my name is Chris and I am a trainee
Ubuntu developer/packager. I am willing to help contribute to the Debian
project of packaging Crosswire's software as well as of course uploading to
the Ubuntu repos. When I find the time I shall of course help upgrade at
least one of the packages.

Regards,
Chris.

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*Christopher Swift*
Swansea, Wales

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On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 11:06 PM, Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch> wrote:

> ------- Start of forwarded message -------
> Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 01:45:14 +0000
> From: Refdoc <refdoc at crosswire.org>
> To: ubuntu-motu at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Gnomesword, libsword, diatheke, sword modules, bibletime
>
> Hi,
>
> I am one of the developers at CrossWire. Several of our programmes are
> in your repository, but they are ancient, often 2 or more releases
> behind us.
>
> I have tried on several occasions to contact the maintainer listed but
> to little avail.
>
> I asked eventually on #ubuntu-devel and was advised to mail to you.
>
> As we see it, following is wrong:
>
> 1) libsword is at 1.5.11 - if you wait a couple of weeks probably at
> 1.5.12.  You keep 1.5.9. 1.5.9 is nearly 2 years old. The functional
> increase is massive.
>
> 2) libsword should be compiled with ICU to allow it full function. It is
> not.
>
> 3) you should not maintain sword modules as all our programmes have a
> module manager which will download modules directly. Installing modules
> via apt-get renders the module manager non-functional as the modules are
> installed by apt-get into non user writable areas (/usr/share/sword
> instead of ~/.sword)
>
> 4) diatheke is a commandline utility which can if carefully handled also
> be used as a base for CGI script. The example CGI code coming along with
> it is not meant to be exposed to the internet - at least not in this
> form.  Therefore the dependency on Apache is wrong. Most users will use
> diatheke only as commandline routine, never as CGI.
>
> 5) Gnomesword is ancient history. All bug reports you have on file for
> GS are sorted in upodated versions. Our last release was 2.4.1. we are
> currently moving towards the next release - a week or two.
>
> There is probably more to it, but to be honest for years now we direct
> everyone to our own debs as Ubuntu and Debian are so out of date.
>
> I would therefore extremely grateful if someone could take this one up
> or advise us how to go about submitting a new set of packages ourselves.
>
> Thanks!
> ------- End of forwarded message -------
>
> In the Ubuntu bugtracker we currently have the following "needs
> updating to upstream version" bugs
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sword/+bug/320558
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnomesword/+bug/295389
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bibletime/+bug/320541
>
> I'd suggest that we should also look at the following and try to make
> sure that the next package version closes them:
>
>
> "gnomesword crashes when looking up a word in Strong's dictionary"
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnomesword/+bug/87691
>
> "gnomesword2 dictionaries not functioning"
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnomesword/+bug/164152
>
> "launching personal notes crashes gnomesword"
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnomesword/+bug/150425
>
> "GnomeSword dependency wrongly installs Arabic bible"
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnomesword/+bug/231886
>
>
> Greetings,
> Norbert
>
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