在 二, 2004-02-24 15:59, Andreas Tille 寫道： > Hi, > > there was no upload of StarDict for a very long time. We currently hit > upstream version 2.4.3 which is much more powerfull and not only restricted > to Chinese-English so much more users could profit from an updated package. > > The maintainer seems not to care for closing RC bugs which were fixed in > NMU (#198113). Moreover the package hit the innefficient packaging bug > (#233445). > > The question is: Is this package really maintained? >
Dear Andreas, I had chat with Anthony Fok, the current maintainer of stardict these few weeks. He is very busy. Packing an upstream stardict package is not a hard jobs. The main problem is that stardict have add many dictionaries since the last debian package and the source of those dictionaries is not clear and need to be discuss in debian-legal before added in Debian. It is time costuming jobs and Anthony can't allocate time for it in these few months. After the chat, we agree that I will take over the package and he would be my sponsor (while I'm not an official developer) I had already pack the latest version of stardict but it doesn't contains any dictionaries. To make it can be usable ASAP. I planned to modify existing dictd dictionary packages (e.g. dict-wn, dict-gcide, dict-freedict-*) to make them produce one more binary package which contain the stardict format of the dictionaries. After finish those non-problematic dictionaries, I will start to process the problematic dictionaries in debian-legal. I had sent a mail of the above plan to debian-devel and see if there is any comment on it. I know your are the maintainer of wordnet and would like to ask for your comment of the above plan. And it would be great if you can lent your hand to us. Indeed, I had already finished the modification of wordnet. (sorry, I would like to test if my idea works or not) I will submit to you if it is ready but you can have a look in http://www.debian.org.hk/~voioo/debian/incoming/ Wish to see you comment or any better suggestion. best regards, Roy Chan
