[Ichthux-devel] Sword texts

[Raphaël Pinson]

On 11/30/06, Daniel Glassey <wdg at debian.org> wrote:
>
> On 30/11/06, Justus at piater.name <Justus at piater.name> wrote:
> > Hi Daniel,
> >
> > it's me again: I noticed that you are also the Debian maintainer of
> > sword-text-web. There are a number of Sword modules that are not
> > available as Debian packages yet, but that I would like to have.
> >
> > Would it make sense to debianize more of them, or is their
> > (non-Debian) installation considered so easy that it does not really
> > matter?
> >
> > I might help, and perhaps eventually become a maintainer myself,
> > depending on what's involved. Will an analysis of existing
> > sword-text-* packages suffice to get an idea? Or can you give any
> > other advice?
>
> IMHO the non-Debian installation is so easy now that they aren't
> needed. When I first made the packages I agreed that they would be
> enough because any more would be too much data to add to Debian. Also,
> some of the modules can only be distributed by crosswire because of
> the licences.
> Since them some other people have made modules for non-english texts
> which have been accepted into Debian but those need to be done on a
> case bycase basis.
>
> Afair the Ichthux team might be packaging some more modules for their
> distro so hopefully you can help them. I've cc'd them for ideas.
>
> Regards,
> Daniel



Thank you for forwarding this Daniel.

Indeed, we have been packaging more modules in Ichthux. There are various
reasons to do that.

Although the non-Debian installation (bookshelf manager in Bibletime for
example) is very easy, it doesn't allow to install modules system-wide
easily, so each user has to download their own texts and install them in
~/.sword, which can obviously a space issue, especially on systems shared by
a lot of users (in a church for example). Another approach might be to set
/usr/share/sword to belong to the sword group, let users in this group add
to it and add this location to sword.conf...

Using packages also allowed us to create language packs for sword modules. I
have created a sword-language-packs package that generates metapackages for
each supported language. These packages are then used in language-selector
to install sword texts in a language when the support for this language is
selected and libsword6 is installed.

Eventually, it was also necessary for us to use packages to install sword
texts by default in Ichthux a proper way.

@Justus: I'd be happy to see the packages we've done in Ubuntu be included
in Debian, and to see more modules packaged.

God bless


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