Hi Thorsten, On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 08:26:28PM +0100, Thorsten Alteholz wrote: > Hi Roberto, > > sorry, for waiting so long with the answer. > No problem. Thanks for getting back to me. I know you have been extremely busy, so your response is much appreciated.
> If I understand correctly now, the CCEL text files are in the public domain. > As they already have a special format, they don't need to have additional > markup stuff but can be immediately processed by the CW tools to create > Sword Modules. > > You just put the compressed modules into the package. > > It doesn't matter how the Sword project would like to distribute their > modules. The preferred form is the form which the user of the texts actually > prefer to make modifications. I don't think this is the case for the > compressed modules but only for the text files. So in order to fulfill the > DFSG requirements, you need to put the original text files as well into the > source tarball (or in debian/missing-sources). > Ideally you would create the compressed modules during package build. If > this is for whatever reason problematic, you need to explain why and > document the process for module creation. Everybody else should be able to > create their own modules on demand. If some of the needed tools are not yet > within Debian main, you need to upload them first[1]. If those tools are not > suitable for main, the Sword modules must move to non-free. > Thanks for the detailed explanation and the clean guidance. > Please also update the other sword packages if needed. > The team is preparing to make the move from Alioth to Salsa and so we are also preparing to do some overdue project housekeeping. I will make sure that we look at this and take care of packages currently in Debian before resubmitting sword-comm-mhc for NEW processing. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez _______________________________________________ Pkg-crosswire-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-crosswire-devel
