Ubuntu
goldendict package

Add support for LZMA2-compressed slob

Bug #1838873 reported by T. K. on 2019-08-04

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	goldendict (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Aard 2 is a free dictionary that distributes many wikis as dictionaries: https://github.com/itkach/slob/wiki/Dictionaries The ones I use are, for example http://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/aarddict/enwiki/ The upstream GoldenDict correctly reads this *.lzma2.slob format (as of commit 0f951b06a55f3a201891cf645a556e773bda5f52 from 2019-07-25), but the one packaged in Ubuntu 18.04 ignores them.

Adding support requires extra package liblzma-dev at build time and adding an extra parameter "CONFIG+=zim_support" to qmake as described here: https://github.com/goldendict/goldendict#building-with-zim-dictionaries-support

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TJ (tj) wrote on 2019-08-04:

This package is imported from Debian and doesn't carry Ubuntu-specific patches so the best way to get these changes is to report a bug against it there. If the Debian maintainer adds these options Ubuntu will inherit it at next import.

https://packages.debian.org/sid/goldendict