Simon Debian packaging

Shawn Sörbom shawn at sorbom.com
Sun Dec 7 23:48:43 UTC 2014


Wow, that was fast, thanks!
I had no idea Simon was in Alioth already, I will look into it.

On Monday, December 08, 2014 00:36:24 Mario Fux wrote:
> Am Montag, 08. Dezember 2014, 00.25:17 schrieb Shawn Sörbom:
> > Hello,
> 
> Morning Shawn
> 
> > I was wondering if the issues keeping simon from being a debian package
> > have been fixed?  As I recall, there was an issue with julius licensing
> > that was holding back progress. I was under the impression that julius can
> > be replaced with CMU-sphinx in the latest builds. If nobody else is
> > interested, I would like to try to get Simon into debian-experimental so
> > that there is a clear path to stable once simon is ready. I could start
> > working on this in ~1.5 weeks.
> 
> As far as I'm informed the licensing problems are gone and there is even
> some progress in packaging Simon for Debian:
> http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-kde/kde-extras/simon.git/
> 
> You'd best ask Maximiliano Curia on the debian-qt-kde mailing list of
> Debian.
> > Thanks,
> > Shawn Sörbom
> > PS. How is text dictation progressing? as a Dragon Naturally Speaking user
> > I have been awaiting news on this feature with great interest.
> 
> It's a bit stalled atm but Peter might know about the current plans.
> 
> Thanks
> Mario


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