On 11/30/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Daniel Glassey</b> <<a href="mailto:wdg@debian.org">wdg@debian.org</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 30/11/06, <a href="mailto:Justus@piater.name">Justus@piater.name</a> <<a href="mailto:Justus@piater.name">Justus@piater.name</a>> wrote:<br>> Hi Daniel,<br>><br>> it's me again: I noticed that you are also the Debian maintainer of
<br>> sword-text-web. There are a number of Sword modules that are not<br>> available as Debian packages yet, but that I would like to have.<br>><br>> Would it make sense to debianize more of them, or is their
<br>> (non-Debian) installation considered so easy that it does not really<br>> matter?<br>><br>> I might help, and perhaps eventually become a maintainer myself,<br>> depending on what's involved. Will an analysis of existing
<br>> sword-text-* packages suffice to get an idea? Or can you give any<br>> other advice?<br><br>IMHO the non-Debian installation is so easy now that they aren't<br>needed. When I first made the packages I agreed that they would be
<br>enough because any more would be too much data to add to Debian. Also,<br>some of the modules can only be distributed by crosswire because of<br>the licences.<br>Since them some other people have made modules for non-english texts
<br>which have been accepted into Debian but those need to be done on a<br>case bycase basis.<br><br>Afair the Ichthux team might be packaging some more modules for their<br>distro so hopefully you can help them. I've cc'd them for ideas.
<br><br>Regards,<br>Daniel</blockquote><div><br><br>Thank you for forwarding this Daniel.<br><br>Indeed, we have been packaging more modules in Ichthux. There are various reasons to do that.<br><br>Although the non-Debian installation (bookshelf manager in Bibletime for example) is very easy, it doesn't allow to install modules system-wide easily, so each user has to download their own texts and install them in ~/.sword, which can obviously a space issue, especially on systems shared by a lot of users (in a church for example). Another approach might be to set /usr/share/sword to belong to the sword group, let users in this group add to it and add this location to
sword.conf...<br><br>Using packages also allowed us to create language packs for sword modules. I have created a sword-language-packs package that generates metapackages for each supported language. These packages are then used in language-selector to install sword texts in a language when the support for this language is selected and libsword6 is installed.
<br><br>Eventually, it was also necessary for us to use packages to install sword texts by default in Ichthux a proper way.<br><br>@Justus: I'd be happy to see the packages we've done in Ubuntu be included in Debian, and to see more modules packaged.
<br><br>God bless<br><br></div></div><br>-- <br> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>Raphaël Pinson - <a href="mailto:raphink@ichthux.com">raphink@ichthux.com</a><br>
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