For the record,
In 2017, Kunal wrote:
> Currently this is blocked by #868641: Upgrade libzim to 2.0.0. Once that
> is resolved, Vasudev has offered to sponsor the initial upload.
zimlib 2.x landed in sid last month (August 2017):
https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/zimlib
In 2015, Elena wrote:
> What about packaging just kiwix-serve?
> It shouldn't depend on xulrunner, and adding it back into debian would
> mean that there would be at least one reader for ZIM files, which is
> currently lacking.
I found goldendict zim support mentioned here:
http://www.openzim.org/wiki/ZIM_Readers
goldendict in sid uses libzim since this month (September 2017):
goldendict (1.5.0~rc2+git20170908+ds-1) unstable; urgency=medium
[...]
* New upstream snapshot. (Closes: #867497)
+ Enable support for Zim dictionaries.
[...]
-- Boyuan Yang <073p...@gmail.com> Wed, 13 Sep 2017 16:27:37 +0800
I haven't tested this myself yet.
It looks like goldendict's zim integration is being compiled, but
libzim2 / libzim-dev isn't actually linked in nor depended upon yet:
https://packages.debian.org/sid/goldendict
https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=goldendict&arch=i386&ver=1.5.0~rc2%2Bgit20170908%2Bds-1&stamp=1505397575&raw=0
