On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 11:54:17PM +0330, Mohsen Saboorian wrote: > > 8/ Please try to get upstream (you? :) remove all the useless files > > (*.zip, *.jar, ...) and provide them apart on his website. That's the > > best way to get zekr distribution-friendly (for Debian, Mandriva, and > > others) > > *needs mohsen's attention. Personally I do not like this idea.* > > Upstream package is used for all Linux/BSD distributions, so I don't > think this would be a good idea to remove all library dependencies. > This packag is targeted for end-users not Hackers :) .tar.gz upstream > package is a rather stand-alone package (which only depends on a > Mozilla as well as a JRE 1.4.2+). I thought we are dealing with source packages ? Keep the binary as you want but the source is targeted for hackers or advanced users ? > For packages go into Debian repositories, we try to remove > dependencies and replacing them with libraries available on > repository. Seems logical to me ;-) > > 9/ Why is the package repackaged and called .dfsg? Are there non-free > > files in the upstream tarball? > > *yes there were: translations and jar libs. I removed them all.* > > Ubuntu REVUers were very strict on not bundling Pickthal and Yusufali > translations although they where written more than 50 years ago.... What's wrong with them ? > > what's res/./bookmark/.DONOTDELETE ? > > *That was in the zekr upstream tar.gz. I do not know* > > *it needs Mohsen's attention* > > It has a (not-so-clever) technical reason. At the moment, it's not > good to remove that file from the package. If you do so, bookmarks.xml > (default bookmark set) is always reset at startup and all your changes > to that bookmark set is lost. I try to remove that file for future > releases, but please bear with that one for now. I think it won't harm > anyone ;) It looks suspicious. Nothing more IMHO. > > Mohammed Adnène Trojette: > > does it depend on any browser or on firefox precisely? > > If it depends on any browser, please prefer depending on www-browser. > > *Zekr uses SWT and so it should depend on firefox | iceape | xulrunner > > that similar to eclipse pacakge. please see /usr/bin/eclipse* > > It won't work for example with Konqueror. Only some (not all) > Mozilla-friendly browsers can be used as SWT Browser widget on Linux. I'd really like to know how can I verify that the browser support is working ? I'm not a java guy so I'm not familiar with the whole thing. -- GPG-Key: 0xA3FD0DF7 - 9F73 032E EAC9 F7AD 951F 280E CB66 8E29 A3FD 0DF7 Debian User and Developer. Homepage: www.foolab.org
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