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To be filled. * There's not “one” FreeDict source, but many dictionaries with every dictionary having its own version number. At a first glance one should package them separately, but this would mean copying the whole debian/*-infrastructure, since the dictionaries are structured pretty much the same way.
* Check the bunch of (old-style) patch files under debian/patches and remove, if not needed.
* Look at maintainer scripts to find out whether still needed.

Translation(s): English - Italiano


FreeDict - free (multi/bi)lingual dictionaries

This Debian team is currently in the founding progress. At this wiki page the success shall be documented.

About FreeDict

The FreeDict project aims at providing free (multi|bi)lingual dictionary (databases) and this team aims at packaging the latest versions to include at both in Ubuntu and Debian Stable/Unstable.

The preferred editable form of the data is in TEI/XML a file format under active maintenance by the Text Encoding Initiative.

Repository

The source can be optained by checking out:

git clone https://alioth.debian.org/git/pkg-freedict/pkg-freedict.git

Unfortunately, there is none yet :-).

If you have an alioth account, check out:

git clone ssh://<username>@alioth.debian.org/git/pkg-freedict/pkg-freedict.git

Contact

Our mailing list can be joined by sending a mail to pkg-freedict-discuss-subscribe@lists.alioth.debian.org; the posting address is pkg-freedict-discuss@lists.alioth.debian.org.

We have also an IRC channel, just join us on irc.debian.org in the #debian-freedict channel!

Bugs

The Debian packages have been orphaned, see Debian bug 704967

The plan is to adopt them as soon as the “founding process” is over.

To do

* There's not “one” FreeDict source, but many dictionaries with every dictionary having its own version number. At a first glance one should package them separately, but this would mean copying the whole debian/*-infrastructure, since the dictionaries are structured pretty much the same way. * Check the bunch of (old-style) patch files under debian/patches and remove, if not needed. * Look at maintainer scripts to find out whether still needed.