[needs-packaging] zotero-standalone

[Lars Noodén]

Zotero is a free reference manager with FF/LO plugins.

URL: http://www.zotero.org/support/3.0
Licence: GNU AGPL
Notes: Comes in Firefox extension and standalone desktop (which includes the LO plugin) versions

[Julian Andres Klode (juliank)]

This is so obviously not a bug in APT. It's a packaging request for Ubuntu. There are guidelines for it IIRC, but I can't remember them right now.

[Joshua Lückers (joshualuckers)]

Thank you for taking the time to request this package and helping to make Ubuntu better. Unfortunately you have not provided enough information for a developer to start packaging this application. Please make sure this bug meets the guidelines at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment/NewPackages. An example of a complete package request is available at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment/NewPackages/ExamplePackageRequest.

[Lars Noodén (larsnooden)]

Sorry about putting it under APT, launch pad would not accept a bug report without a package name.

"To get a package into Ubuntu, please file a bug in Launchpad and make sure it has the tag needs-packaging."
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment/NewPackages

The source code should be available via SVN:
https://www.zotero.org/trac

It is available under the GPL v3

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

*** This is an automated message ***

This bug is tagged needs-packaging which identifies it as a request for a new package in Ubuntu. As a part of the managing needs-packaging bug reports specification, https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Specs/NeedsPackagingBugs, all needs-packaging bug reports have Wishlist importance. Subsequently, I'm setting this bug's status to Wishlist.

[Jezza (balingupjer)]

here is one possible icon - http://openclipart.org/detail/Z-ico.svg

[Jezza (balingupjer)]

this is a pretty convoluted process!

looked up zotero standalone on Debian package requests

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=504058

[Jezza (balingupjer)]

FYI - automatic install script here - http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/20262/zotero-standalone-automated-installer-linux

Contents as below - note: syntax not exact, may be for another distro? - also note that current version is 3.0.7! - script default is out of date...

wget https://raw.github.com/smathot/zotero_installer/master/zotero_installer.sh
-O /tmp/zotero_installer.sh
chmod +x /tmp/zotero_installer.sh
/tmp/zotero_installer.sh

[Jack Leigh (leighman)]

This seems to now be available in debian unstable. Will it be in saucy?

[papukaija (papukaija)]

Yes, the Canonical server's will automatically copy packages from Debian unstable to Ubuntu's repositories until Debian Import Freeze (DIF), which is June 20th for Saucy. I do not know how often the copy script is run but hopefully it happens well before the DIF. If it does not happen, manual action is needed, please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment/NewPackages#Requesting_a_new_package_for_Ubuntu for more details.

[papukaija (papukaija)]

By the way, I found a PPA that contains zotero-standalone: ppa:smathot/cogscinl . Please see https://launchpad.net/~smathot/+archive/cogscinl for more information.

[Logan Rosen (logan)]

This requires XULRunner, which isn't Ubuntu. Marking this as Won't Fix accordingly.