Debian Bug report logs - #883867
ITP: bookworm -- simple, focused eBook reader

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "Francesco Poli (wintermute)" <invernomuto@paranoici.org>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: RFP: bookworm -- simple, focused eBook reader

Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2017 17:16:59 +0100

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name    : bookworm
  Version         : 0.9.1
  Upstream Author : Siddhartha Das <bablu.boy@gmail.com>
* URL             : https://babluboy.github.io/bookworm/
* License         : GPL-3+
  Programming Lang: Vala
  Description     : simple, focused eBook reader

 Read the books you love without having to worry about the different
 format complexities.
 The current version of Bookworm (v0.9) supports eBooks in the
 following file formats: EPUB, PDF, MOBI, CBR, CBZ.
 .
 Key features for library management and reading in Bookworm:
 1. Toggle between a grid view and a list view for the library.
    Sort, filter, and edit metadata.
 2. Easy, simple layout to read books. Three reading profiles.
    Bookmarks. Full screen mode.
 3. Info button to access information about contents, bookmarks,
    search results.
 4. Customization of cache, library view, font family, reading
    profiles, directories to watch.


Other relevant information:

I think this package may be useful, because fbreader risks being
removed from Debian (see bug #874867): when this happens, we risk
being left without a simple lightweight e-book reader in Debian
(I've considered calibre, but it seems to be a huge package with
countless dependencies, which would bloat my systems with hundreds
of megabytes of extra packages). Bookworm looks like a possible
alternative to FBReader.

Please note that there seems to be a (somewhat outdated, I should
say) PPA for Ubuntu:
https://launchpad.net/~bookworm-team/+archive/ubuntu/bookworm
I am not sure whether this may be a starting point for the Debian
package.

I hope someone is willing to package Bookworm for Debian.
Thanks a lot to anyone who steps in!

Bye.

Message #10 received at 883867@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Francesco Poli <invernomuto@paranoici.org>

To: pkg-vala-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org

Cc: 883867@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Anyone interested in packaging bookworm?

Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2018 19:06:02 +0100

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Hello Debian Vala package maintainers!

I filed an RFP bug report for boorworm, a small e-book reader (written
in Vala).
For further details, see bug #883867.

Is anyone interested in packaging it?
I would really appreciate it.

Thanks for considering.
Bye.

-- 
 http://www.inventati.org/frx/
 There's not a second to spare! To the laboratory!
..................................................... Francesco Poli .
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Message #15 received at 883867@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>

To: Francesco Poli <invernomuto@paranoici.org>, pkg-vala-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org

Cc: 883867@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: [Pkg-vala-maintainers] Anyone interested in packaging bookworm?

Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2018 20:21:01 +0100

On 27/01/18 19:06, Francesco Poli wrote:
> Hello Debian Vala package maintainers!
> 
> I filed an RFP bug report for boorworm, a small e-book reader (written
> in Vala).
> For further details, see bug #883867.
> 
> Is anyone interested in packaging it?
> I would really appreciate it.

The team only maintains the language (and related modules), not random apps
written in Vala. Why don't you maintain it yourself?

Emilio

Message #20 received at 883867@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Francesco Poli <invernomuto@paranoici.org>

To: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>

Cc: pkg-vala-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org, 883867@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: [Pkg-vala-maintainers] Anyone interested in packaging bookworm?

Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2018 23:20:42 +0100

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On Sun, 28 Jan 2018 20:21:01 +0100 Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:

> On 27/01/18 19:06, Francesco Poli wrote:
> > Hello Debian Vala package maintainers!
> > 
> > I filed an RFP bug report for boorworm, a small e-book reader (written
> > in Vala).
> > For further details, see bug #883867.
> > 
> > Is anyone interested in packaging it?
> > I would really appreciate it.
> 
> The team only maintains the language (and related modules), not random apps
> written in Vala.

What I meant was "is anyone reading this mailing list interested in
packaging it as a single maintainer?".
I am searching for someone familiar with the Vala language and its
ecosystem, so that creating and maintaining the package would not
require an excessive burden.

> Why don't you maintain it yourself?

Because, unfortunately, I lack the time to package and maintain it and,
above all, to learn Vala and its libraries...   :-(


-- 
 http://www.inventati.org/frx/
 There's not a second to spare! To the laboratory!
..................................................... Francesco Poli .
 GnuPG key fpr == CA01 1147 9CD2 EFDF FB82  3925 3E1C 27E1 1F69 BFFE

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Message #29 received at 883867@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: hjenkins <hjenkins@uvic.ca>

To: 883867@bugs.debian.org

Cc: debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org

Subject: bookworm for accessibility

Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2020 11:53:29 -0700

Packaging the Bookworm e-reader could significantly improve the 
accessibility of Debian. Bookworm is written by blind developers, 
according to its website.

E-book readers are important if you are vision-impaired. Many e-book 
programs don't work well with screenreaders. Bookworm has and interface 
and documentation that is accessible to the vision-impaired, and it also 
has good independent reviews from sighted users.

FBreader seems to have been proprietized (formerly GPL2 or later)! I'm 
not sure if it's been forked or what; there do not seem to be new 
updates.

Message #34 received at 883867@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Paul Gevers <elbrus@debian.org>

To: hjenkins <hjenkins@uvic.ca>, 883867@bugs.debian.org

Cc: debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org

Subject: Re: bookworm for accessibility

Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2020 20:52:02 +0100

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Hi hjenkins,

On 16-03-2020 19:53, hjenkins wrote:
> Packaging the Bookworm e-reader could significantly improve the
> accessibility of Debian. Bookworm is written by blind developers,
> according to its website.

Thanks for letting us know about this piece of software. Are you aware
of ebook-speaker, already packaged in Debian. Also that has been written
by a blind developer.

That said, for this bug: if anybody is interested to do the initial
work, I think the accessibility team welcomes the package under the team
umbrella.

Paul

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Message #39 received at 883867@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: hjenkins <hjenkins@uvic.ca>

To: Paul Gevers <elbrus@debian.org>

Cc: 883867@bugs.debian.org, ebian-accessibility@lists.debian.org

Subject: Re: bookworm for accessibility

Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2020 14:13:31 -0700

May apologies; I've gotten two different software packages with the same 
name confused.

The one with the reviews is GPL3 Bookworm 1.1.2 by Siddhartha Das, in 
Vala. It was originally made for elementaryOS, a Ubuntu derivative.

The one with an accessibility emphasis is for Windows, and it is the MIT 
Bookworm v0.1b4 by Musharraf Omer, in Python


Thank you, Paul, I had not heard of ebook-speaker! I had come across 
daisy-player, so I'm not sure why I hadn't. Useful information.


On 2020-03-16 12:52, Paul Gevers wrote:
> Hi hjenkins,
> 
> On 16-03-2020 19:53, hjenkins wrote:
>> Packaging the Bookworm e-reader could significantly improve the
>> accessibility of Debian. Bookworm is written by blind developers,
>> according to its website.
> 
> Thanks for letting us know about this piece of software. Are you aware
> of ebook-speaker, already packaged in Debian. Also that has been 
> written
> by a blind developer.
> 
> That said, for this bug: if anybody is interested to do the initial
> work, I think the accessibility team welcomes the package under the 
> team
> umbrella.
> 
> Paul

Message #44 received at 883867@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Federico Ceratto <federico.ceratto@gmail.com>

To: 883867@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#883867: bookworm for accessibility

Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2020 11:10:32 +0000

Hi,
for the record, the packaging of Bookworm is being held back by this
security issue:
https://github.com/babluboy/bookworm/issues/283

--
Federico

Message #49 received at 883867@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org>

To: Colomban Wendling <cwendling@hypra.fr>

Cc: debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org, 883867@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: bookworm for accessibility

Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2020 22:59:26 +0100

Hello,

Colomban Wendling, le mar. 17 mars 2020 10:46:16 +0100, a ecrit:
> Le 16/03/2020 à 21:16, john doe a écrit :
> > On 3/16/2020 8:52 PM, Paul Gevers wrote:
> >> Hi hjenkins,
> >>
> >> On 16-03-2020 19:53, hjenkins wrote:
> >>> Packaging the Bookworm e-reader could significantly improve the
> >>> accessibility of Debian. Bookworm is written by blind developers,
> >>> according to its website.
> >>
> >> Thanks for letting us know about this piece of software. Are you aware
> >> of ebook-speaker, already packaged in Debian. Also that has been written
> >> by a blind developer.
> >>
> >> That said, for this bug: if anybody is interested to do the initial
> >> work, I think the accessibility team welcomes the package under the team
> >> umbrella.
> >>
> > 
> > According to (1), it is only for Windows.
> > 
> > "• Make sure you are running Windows 7 or later, and you've installed
> > Python 3.7 or a later version:"
> > 
> > 1)  https://github.com/mush42/bookworm/
> 
> 
> I'm not sure everybody's talking about the same "bookworm"…  I believe
> this thread is about https://babluboy.github.io/bookworm, which is
> definitely available on GNU/Linux.

There seems to be some confusion indeed.

https://github.com/mush42/bookworm/
is in Python and seems windows-only

https://babluboy.github.io/bookworm
is in vala and doesn't seem targetted towards accessibility.

Samuel

Message #54 received at 883867-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Debian FTP Masters <ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org>

To: 883867-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#883867: fixed in bookworm 1.1.2+git20200529-1

Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2020 11:00:09 +0000

Source: bookworm
Source-Version: 1.1.2+git20200529-1
Done: Boyuan Yang <byang@debian.org>

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
bookworm, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 883867@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Boyuan Yang <byang@debian.org> (supplier of updated bookworm package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org)


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Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2020 14:33:37 -0400
Source: bookworm
Binary: bookworm bookworm-dbgsym
Architecture: source amd64
Version: 1.1.2+git20200529-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Boyuan Yang <byang@debian.org>
Changed-By: Boyuan Yang <byang@debian.org>
Description:
 bookworm   - Simple, focused eBook Reader
Closes: 883867
Changes:
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 .
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