Bug 166608 - app-dicts/edictionary-2.2 update fixes broken m-w.com html parsing.
Bug#: 166608 Product:  Gentoo Linux Version: unspecified Platform: All
OS/Version: Linux Status: RESOLVED Severity: major Priority: P2
Resolution: FIXED Assigned To: app-dicts@gentoo.org Reported By: bob@littletimmy.homelinux.com
Component: Ebuilds
URL: 
Summary: app-dicts/edictionary-2.2 update fixes broken m-w.com html parsing.
Keywords:  InCVS
Status Whiteboard: 
Opened: 2007-02-13 02:33 0000
Description:   Opened: 2007-02-13 02:33 0000
m-w.com (Merriam-Webster) changed their html output format sometime in December
2006 which broke app-dicts/edictionary.  The updated version 2.2 fixes the
parsing.  The latest version in portage is 1.2.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.emerge app-dicts/edictionary - portage will grab version 1.2
2.run "edict test" on command line
3.no results found due to parsing errors

Actual Results:  
see 3. above

Expected Results:  
definition for test returned

Sourceforge page is here: http://edictionary.sourceforge.net/
Freshmeat page is here: http://freshmeat.net/projects/edict/

------- Comment #1 From REdOG 2007-03-21 17:32:39 0000 -------
bumping the ebuild name to 2.2 and re-emerging fixes it. 1.2 should be removed
and replaced with 2.2

------- Comment #2 From Santiago M. Mola 2007-07-04 09:16:26 0000 -------
Bumped. Thanks for reporting ;-)