Hello Roy, thanks again for your quick reply.
> Indeed, I don't recommend people to convert use RPM version, while it > is wasting time and not advantage. Using the rpms was not a technical problem (for me). Alien converts them to clean debs, no problems here. Nevertheless the solution is a crudge ;-) > > Quote from BUG#280286 > > For those free dictionary like gcide are wordnet, their debian > > maintainer request modify stardict to support Dict format rather then > > include a stardict format dictionary in Debian. That why currently, > > there is no stardict dictionary bundle in Debian. This is exactly what I was looking for. I prefer this approach to redundant data. :-) > > I still have no time to do any hack on stardict yet. Indeed, I prefer > > to make stardict to able to access dictd server via network, coz I think > > the stardict format is better. If you want to help, you can work on > > this. Making stardict a dict client is another valid option. But honestly, the dictd package can give you quite a headache (as it did to me), because the server will "start", silently quit (or crash?) without any message (not even to syslog or user.log) and you are left to wonder why the &% $"§? thing doesn't work. Anyway, if you think the stardict dictionary format is better, can you explain in a few words? Thanks. > For my point of view, I have no time to hack stardict yet. For the > freedict* package, they are maintain by QA team currently. > I can take them up but I never use those dictionaries. It is > not a good way for a maintainer to maintain sometime he never use > and difficulty to keep the package quality. > > I would said, package freedict* is indeed in my TODO list, but not yet > in top priority. I still wish some appropriate person will take up that > job before I take action. Okay, I will just wait ... as I feel not I am the appropriate person for hacking ;-) Thanks for maintaining stardict anyway. Kind regards Andreas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
