Bugzilla Bug 38305

The package app-text/dictd-1.9.7 does not work with the dictionary
app-dicts/dictd-vera-1.7-r1, giving a segmentation fault. The source for
version 1.7 of the VERA dictionary is not available anymore. Please update to
latest one available (which does work with latest dictd).

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Created an attachment (id=23869) [edit]
ebuild for dictd-vera-1.9_pre

My ebuild for the new version of the package.

thanks for your report, the version of dictd-vera has been bumped 

I am sorry but I have misunderstood the "pre" in the naming of the source file
for this package. People in the dict-beta mailing list has made it clear to me
that the "pre" means "pre-formatted" and not "pre-release". So there sould be
no "_pre" in the version number of the this package.

Furthermore I have found out that the upstream source release of this package
is not kept at dict.org, but rather at its own home page, accessible from
http://home.snafu.de/ohei/. The most recent GNU version of V.E.R.A. source is
http://home.snafu.de/ohei/FTP/vera-1.12.tar.gz. It is the free GNU version in
Texinfo format, from which the pre-formatted version was built by the Debian
maintainer of this package (Robert D. Hilliard <hilliard@debian.org>), and made
available at ftp.dict.org. In the dict-beta list Robert gave some general
guidelines on how to build the pre-formatted dictd version from the texinfo
source.

I think it would be nicer having this Gentoo package built from the pristine
sources, instead of the pre-formatted file. What do you think?

I have seen some Gentoo packages built from an RPM package. Is there also
Gentoo packages built from a Debian package? If that is possible, building this
package from the Debian one (http://packages.qa.debian.org/v/vera.html) may be
an option.

I will try to craft a new ebuild for this package taking the above into
account.

In the ChangeLog there is the entry:

  16 Jan 2004; Alastair Tse <liquidx@gentoo.org> dictd-vera-1.9_pre.ebuild,
  metadata.xml:
  version bump, apparently fixes issues with older version of dictd (?)
  (#38305), thanks to José Romildo Malaquias <romildo uber.com.br>

Maybe I have not been clear in the bug description (sometimes my English gets bad). What I was having is issues with _new_ versions of dictd. The 1.7 version of dictd-vera makes the latest versions of dictd segfault.

In the ChangeLog there is the entry:

  16 Jan 2004; Alastair Tse <liquidx@gentoo.org> dictd-vera-1.9_pre.ebuild,
  metadata.xml:
  version bump, apparently fixes issues with older version of dictd (?)
  (#38305), thanks to José Romildo Malaquias <romildo uber.com.br>

Maybe I have not been clear in the bug description (sometimes my English gets bad). What I was having is issues with _new_ versions of dictd. The 1.7 version of dictd-vera makes the latest versions of dictd segfault.

thanks alright. thanks for following this up, it would probably be best to
build from sources. we don't have the facility to extract debs, but the good
thing is debian always mirrors the source as well, so there shouldn't be a
problem just using their tarball if that proves to be better.

Created an attachment (id=23917) [edit]
Ebuild for dict-vera-1.12

I have a new ebuild for latest version of this package which uses the pristine
source and the debian diff for the Debian package. It does work for me.

I hope there is no legal issues in using the Debian patch.

thanks for your ebuild, i made some moficiations to it and it is now in
portage.