Public bug reported: Please sync tesseract 3.02.01-1 (universe) from Debian sid (main)
Explanation of the Ubuntu delta and why it can be dropped: This is a major upstream release that incorporated a lot of improvements and fixes. It runs patch free on Debian. Explanation of FeatureFreeze exception: Tesseract is an optical character recognition (OCR) program designed to turn images into symbolic text. It is developed with support from Google as part of a book digitization effort, and can have major impact wherever digitizing paper documents are important. Debian's version of Tesseract contains improvements to accuracy, and expands out-of-the-box language support from 6 European languages to 65 languages from all over the world. I am the Debian package co-maintainer, and have a close relationship with upstream. There are a number of complications with this synchronization request, possibly beyond what Ubuntu would normally consider. Tesseract 3.0x has only been in Debian for a couple of weeks. It is still in Debian Unstable due to package name changes. For example tesseract-ocr-dev became libtesseract-dev Each language is packaged separately, so we are talking 65+ packages. See the Debian maintainer page for all tesseract-* packages. We would like all except for tesseract-ocr-lat-lid to enter Ubuntu 12.04. http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=j...@debian.org http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=659934 Several packages execute the tesseract binary. They should work fine. $ whodepends tesseract-ocr gscan2pdf ocrfeeder ocrodjvu slimrat slimrat-nox Two package build-depend on Tesseract $ build-rdeps tesseract-ocr-dev ocropus sikuli Ocropus FTBFS due to package name changes and API changes in Tesseract. Ocropus upstream requests that the obsolete Ocropus package be withdrawn entirely. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=658478 Sikuli has been updated to work with Tesseract 3.02. This is in Debian Unstable, it has not yet migrated to Debian testing. Changelog entries since current precise version 2.04-2.1ubuntu2: tesseract (3.02.01-1) unstable; urgency=low * New upstream release * Upstream fixed a segfault (closes: #658634) * Upstream wrote some missing manpages. -- Jeff Breidenbach <j...@debian.org> Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:30:21 -0800 tesseract (3.02-3) unstable; urgency=low * lintian: ancient-standards-version, quilt-build-dep-but-no-series-file * lintian: wrong-section-according-to-package-name * simplify dependencies and require English (closes: 658099) -- Jeff Breidenbach <j...@debian.org> Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:27:27 -0800 tesseract (3.02-2) unstable; urgency=medium * Deal with file moving to new package name (closes: #658476) * Move .so symlink to the dev package (closes: #658472) * tesseract 3.0x officially breaks ocropus 0.3.x (closes: #658095) * Add dependency to equation "language" at request of upstream * Note that 3.0x tesseract-ocr-dev was renamed to libtesseract-dev * Bumping urgency to medium due to looming propagation deadlines -- Jeff Breidenbach <j...@debian.org> Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:10:07 -0800 tesseract (3.02-1) unstable; urgency=low * New upstream release * 3.0x doesn't have trouble with finding files (closes: #558254) * 3.0x now works with TIFF format (closes: #589726) * Fix subtlety in dependency versioning (closes: #658099) * Fix another subtlety in dependency versioning (closes: #658095) * 3.0x deals with 16bpp TIFF (closes: #634232) * 3.0x deals with .tiff extension properly (closes: #523907) * 3.0x has better overall error handling (closes: #551190) -- Jeff Breidenbach <j...@debian.org> Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:26:22 -0800 tesseract (3.01-3) unstable; urgency=low * Hey we are shipping version 3.x (closes: #599045) * Death to .la files (closes: #658102) * Temporarily remove osd dependency (closes: #658167) * tesseract-ocr-osd dependency now valid (closes: #658167) * Better package names for shared libraries (closes: #658097) * Tersify descriptions a little bit -- Jeff Breidenbach <j...@debian.org> Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:22:52 -0800 tesseract (3.01-2) unstable; urgency=low * Add dependency on script + orientation detection. -- Jeff Breidenbach <j...@debian.org> Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:08:47 -0800 tesseract (3.01-1) unstable; urgency=low * New upstream release -- Jeff Breidenbach <j...@debian.org> Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:12:42 -0800 ** Affects: tesseract (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/933162 Title: FFe: Sync tesseract 3.02.01-1 (universe) from Debian sid (main) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tesseract/+bug/933162/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs