Re: duali debian packages ( was about duali-data )

[elzubeir at arabeyes dot org (Mohammed Elzubeir)]

On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 05:01:07PM +0300, Mohammed Sameer wrote:
> sid and sarge has a python2.2-bsddb3 package but not woody
> 
> $ apt-cache policy python2.2-bsddb3
> python2.2-bsddb3:
>   Installed: (none)
>   Candidate: (none)
>   Version Table:
>      3.3.0-5.2 0
>          -1 ftp://ftp.jp.debian.org unstable/main Packages
>          -1 ftp://ftp2.it.debian.org testing/main Packages
> 
> same for python 2.1
> 
> there is python2.2 but not pybsddb
> 
> I don't think that we need to repackage or hack it if the aim is trying 
> to push it into debian. since the requirements are in both stable and 
> unstable 
> the problem'll be testing the packages. I can fire a request to package 
> bug report and ask for a sponsor on debian mentors. But still the same 
> problem. How can it be tested ?
> 
> But if the aim is to provide a woody package for now then i think that 
> the hack is required.
> 


Alrighty then.. I think I have the solution to all this mess. I have
moved the dict2db.py script to the main pyduali/ pkg. I will start
calling it pyduali when packaged (in anticipation for the proper duali
work starting very very soon). 

I simply switched it so it would use whatever dbm is available. I also
took care of a little quirk that seems to happen on Windows when
generating the dictionary.

I simply cannot downgrade to Python 2.1. It does not offer the ability
to encode from unicode->any-encoding. I can only decode using the
builtin unicode() function. That is not good enough if I were to suport
multiple encodings.. so forget it. Woody has 2.2, that's good enough.

Let me know if you need anything else.

later
Mohammed Elzubeir