Trying again with proper formatting.

>I see on the linked Debian bug that sikuli has reported worse
>performance with this new series.  Is that not a concern or is their
>usecase no longer as well supported?

Tesseract upstream is in communication with Sikuli upstream. a 10%
drop in recognition performance is considered acceptable by Sikuli
upstream. Additionally, future releases of Sikuli may remove that
penalty now that the two upstreams are in communication.  Here is the
relevant quote from Sikuli upstream Tsung-Hsiang (Sean) Chang.

  "The main reason we aren't not switching to tesseract 3 in an
  official release is that its recognition performance is worse than
  2.04 in our dataset. (Not very bad, about 10% worse as I recall.) So
  I think it's fine to wrap the tesseract 3 branch for Debian sid."

>Could you please give an explicit list of all packages to be synced?

Appended.

>I must admit to being a bit concerned about the way that ocropus was
>broken without apparently warning its maintainer too, especially
>given that there is no replacement available yet.

This is a reasonable concern. I assume you are referring to
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=659597

>From an etiquette perspective, I have been in email communication (8
threads in the last 16 days) with Jeffrey Ratcliffe, who is the first
listed maintainer for both Tesseract and Ocropus. I have been in bug
tracking communication (7 bugs) with Jakub Wilk over the same
period. Jakub has been incredibly helpful by filing those packaging
bugs. That said, my strategy was to - with blessing from my
co-maintainer - bring Tesseract 3 into Debian unstable, then find and
fix problems as quickly as possible. I apologize for causing surprise.

However, that leaves the issue of Ocropus. If Ubuntu 12.04 accepts
Tesseract 3, it will lose Ocropus. I respect Ubuntu's decision
whichever way it goes. Please consider the number of users affected on
either side, and also Ocropus upstream Tom Breuel's comments.

   "the version of OCRopus that has been packaged is completely
  outdated. OCRopus is now a set of Python libraries with a little bit
  of C++ in each. The complete final package structure isn't settled
  yet, but I want different components to be fairly independent of
  each other. Now, during my sabbatical, I've finally had time to
  actually work on it more than just a little on the side. The best
  thing for Debian probably would be to discontinue the current
  packaging for OCRopus and start over again when the new release is
  out."

Thank you for your consideration.

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