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why not upgrading to 0.10.17

Asked by Enrico Segre

The version of hocr, libhocr and hocr-gtk currently included in Ubuntu 10 is 0.8.2-5, which is quite old. hocr performance has much improved since then, and the current version upstream is 0.10.17. Why not packaging the newer one instead?
(Fedora does it, see https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/applications/Hocr-Gtk?_csrf_token=921ba23681d149abdca7caac16c8f8ba7f48aa3f)

Enrico

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mycae (mycae) said : 		#1

hocr is maintained by the debian hebrew packaging team:
http://packages.qa.debian.org/h/hocr.html

And is automatically copied into ubuntu. Thus you will probably have more luck if you email their mailing list. THey have not performed an update since 2008 however (0.8.2-6).

Alternately, if you know how, you could modify the current package yourself to bring it up to 0.10.17, then send your package back to those people so it can be incorporated as needed.

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Enrico Segre (enrico-segre) said : 		#2

I'm doing that.
Btw, I discovered that the request is old:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/hocr/+bug/199951

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Enrico Segre (enrico-segre) said : 		#3

wait - what about hocr-gtk, which I compiled from the same sources? (but see https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/hocr/+bug/596820)
Besides qhocr?

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Enrico Segre (enrico-segre) said : 		#4

Sorry, ignore my previous comment - I meant to post it to another place.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said : 		#5

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