Control: retitle -1 RFP: cr3 -- Cool Reader 3, an e-book reader
Hi,
I'm using this software from a local build and I'd like to add it to
Debian. On the other hand, I'm not sure I'll be able to finish this
until Buster release (as I have many bugs to solve on bash-completion
and I want to focus on them). So, if anyone has more time and would
like to work on the package, let's talk and I will be happy to
"transfer" the ITP.
On Tue, 26 Sep 2017 01:31:35 +0200 Axel Beckert wrote:
> programmer11...@programist.ru wrote:
> > URL : http://coolreader.org/
>
> This website is a link spammer nowadays. Seems as if the project lost
> its domain. :-/
>
> The offical website seems to be
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/crengine/ nowadays.
And it seems that it moved again, now to github.com at
https://github.com/buggins/coolreader.
> > Version :3.0.59
Current version on the new website is cr3.2.11-1 and it is from a month
ago (October, 2018).
> But then again the latest download link there seems to have version
> 3.0.56. (It's even a .deb and upstream seems to have some some basic
> debian-sih packaging at
> https://sourceforge.net/p/crengine/crengine/ci/master/tree/packages/ —
> last updated in 2012 though.)
Yes, there are some files for debian packaging, but I plan to go
through all the files, specially for the sake of copyright info.
> https://f-droid.org/packages/org.coolreader/ lists version 3.1.2 from
> 2015 as the newest version.
>
> Nevertheless the last commit in the git repository as of now is from
> January 2017:
> https://sourceforge.net/p/crengine/crengine/commit_browser
>
> So there still seem to be a little bit of activity.
A lot more on the new website. :)
> > License :GPL
>
> The F-Droid app page also states: "The default dictionary app is
> non-free." — So anyone who's looking at packaging Cool Reader for
> Debian proper should have a very close look at the licenses.
That and the fact that it probes the system for some libraries and
tools, and when it doesn't find them, it builds them. I still don't
know where it gets their source-code from (apparently not from the
internet), but I will check what's going on.
Thanks for the heads-up(s), Axel.
