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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

Build Process

The database of databases with information about the size, author, name and download destination can be found at http://www.freedict.org/en/db-as-xml.html.

For performance issues, the freedict-database.xml (with all the dictionary information in it) is cached, one should run

debian/fetchdictdata.py -x

To fetch the latest FreeDict source, one executes

debian/fetchdictdata.py -f

Usage is explained in the first lines of the mentioned file. After this, the orig.tar.gz-file can be imported with git-import-orig from the git-buildpackage utilities.

From time to time, one should also update the debian/iso.*-file with the language codes. They can be found at http://www-01.sil.org/iso639-3/download.asp.

The build process in debian/rules, rule build basically goes through the directories and executes foo-bar.dict.dz. This currently doesn't work for all dictionaries.

Contact

Our mailing list can be joined by sending a mail to pkg-freedict-discuss-subscribe@lists.alioth.debian.org or by visiting the subscription page. The posting address is pkg-freedict-discuss@lists.alioth.debian.org. The archive can be found at http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-freedict-discuss/.

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 / roadmap (?)