This bug was fixed in the package sword - 1.6.0+dfsg-1

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sword (1.6.0+dfsg-1) unstable; urgency=low

  [ Jonathan Marsden ]
  * New upstream release. (Closes: #507960) (LP: #320558)
  * debian/patches/02_libver.diff:
    - Bump SONAME to 8 -- SWORD 1.6 is not backward compatible with 1.5.11.
  * debian/patches/series:
    - Remove 10_diatheke.diff -- included in upstream source.
  * debian/patches/:
    - Remove several old unused .diff files.
    - Add 11_regex_only_when_needed.diff to conditionally include regex lib.
    - Add 12_fix_compiler_warnings.diff to remove all compiler warnings.
    - Add 13_fix_osis2mod_compression_default.diff from upstream svn.
    - Add 14_closing_section_not_chapter.diff from upstream svn.
  * debian/libsword7.*: 
    - Rename to libsword8.*
    - Change libsword7 to libsword8 within files.
  * debian/rules: 
    - SONAME bump to 8.
    - Set library version check to >= 1.6
  * debian/control:
    - Change libsword7 to libsword8.
    - Add libsword7 to Conflicts.
    - Fix case of sword to SWORD in package descriptions.
    - Bump Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes needed).
    - Fix section for libsword-dbg to avoid lintian warning.
  * debian/rules:
    - Add DFSG get-orig-source target.
  * debian/copyright:
    - Fix various mistakes in initial attempt to document copyrights.
  
  [ Dmitrijs Ledkovs ]
  * debian/rules: Added utils.mk to use missing-files target and call it on
    each build.
  * debian/libsword-dev.install: Added libsword.la, previously missing.
  * debian/libsword7.install: Added missing libicu translit files.
  * debian/control:
    - Updated all uses of SWORD version to 1.6
    - Added libsword-dbg package
  * debian/watch: Fixed a small mistake which was resulting in extra "."
    in final version name.
  * debian/rules: simplified manpage processing.
  * debian/libsword8.lintian-overrides: added override for module
    installation directory.
  * debian/copyright: Updated with information about everyfile.
    Closes: #513448 LP: #322638
  * debian/diatheke.examples: moved examples here from the diatheke.install
  * debian/rules:
    - enabled shell script based testsuite
    - added commented out cppunit testsuite
  * debian/patches/40_missing_includes.diff: 
    - added several missing stdio.h includes to prevent FTBFS of testsuite.
  
  [ Closed Bugs ]
  * FTBFS on intrepid (LP: #305172)

sword (1.5.11-1) experimental; urgency=low

  [Jonathan Marsden]
  * New upstream release
  * debian/rules:
    - Switch to using more normal CDBS/autotools not tarball in tarball.
    - Build against libicu for better i18n support.
    - Use chrpath on installed binaries to get rid of lintian warnings.
    - Set DEB_DH_MAKESHLIBS_ARGS to (>= 1.5.11) not (>=1.5.11-1).
    - Add pod2man command to generate tei2mod man page.
    - Use -n option on pod2man commands to fix command names in man pages.
  * Bump SONAME to 7.
    - Rename debian/libsword6.* appropriately.
    - Change 6 to 7 in several scripts including debian/rules
      and debian/control
  * debian/patches:
    - Remove most patches as being unnecessary now.
    - Simplify debian/patches/02_libver.diff to only edit the version-info.
  * debian/control:
    - Bump Standards-Version to 3.8.0.
    - Update diatheke one-line description (cli tool not CGI script).
    - Removed recommends of a web server for diatheke.
    - Edit description of diatheke removing references to web/CGI.
    - Add ${misc:Depends} to Depends of binary packages.
    - Add Homepage tag
    - Update Conflicts: to libsword6.
    - Update Replaces: to include libsword6.
  * debian/*:
    - Move CGI scripts to install as examples, for security reasons.
    - Add debian/diatheke.README.Debian explaining move of CGI scripts.
    - Minimize unnecessary debian/*.dirs files and entries in them.
    - Remove unnecessary debian/libsword7.shlibs file.
  * debian/diatheke.1:
    - Escape all unescaped dashes.
    - Add trailing newline.
  * debian/diatheke.manpages:
    - Create file, add debian/diatheke.1 so this man page is included in
      the diatheke binary package.
  * debian/libsword7.install:
    - Add missing usr/bin/tei2mod entry so the tei2mod command is installed.
  * debian/libsword7.manpages:
    - Add an entry for tei2mod.1 man page.
  * debian/tei2mod.1.pod:
    - Add the tei2mod man page source.

  [Dmitrijs Ledkovs]
  * debian/*.pod
    - Added manpages for all utilities.
  * debian/rules
    - Added rules to generate manpages from POD.
  * debian/libsword7.manpages
    - Created manpages list.
  * debian/control
    - Set maintainer to CrossWire Packaging team
    - Set uploaders: Daniel Glassey, Dmitrijs Ledkovs, Jonathan Marsden
    - Extended descriptions of the packages
  * debian/changelog
    - updated formatting, sorted by developer
  * debian/copyrights
    - updated to proposed copyright format
  * debian/patches
    - added patch descriptions

 -- Jonathan Marsden <email address hidden>   Fri,  05 Jun 2009 16:51:29 +0100