On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 05:24:48PM +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > The copyright file lists that the copy of GCIDE is archived. I am not very > sure > who the current upstream is and if this database is still actively maintained.
It is not. Upstream abandoned GCIDE on the grounds that WordNet is a free dictionary that is actively maintained, and so GCIDE was no longer necessary. I feel that WordNet is of poor quality and largely inadequate, so I disagree. > There have been many bugfixes to typos and definitions but I don't see a > debian/patches folder. Is Debian the only distribution packaging it now ? > Currently there are 19 open bug reports against this package. If I intend to > fix them, where do I submit the patches ? You don't. You will be effectively maintaining a fork. You might consider changing the name. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
