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is probably more to it, but to be honest for years now we direct everyone to our own debs as Ubuntu and Debian are so out of date.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! -- Ubuntu-motu mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-motu
