[needs-packaging] New package sphinx-voxforge-en

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This bug is tagged needs-packaging which identifies it as a request for a new package in Ubuntu. As a part of the managing needs-packaging bug reports specification, https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Specs/NeedsPackagingBugs, all needs-packaging bug reports have Wishlist importance. Subsequently, I'm setting this bug's status to Wishlist.

This package is going to need a Feature Freeze exception: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FreezeExceptionProcess#FeatureFreeze_for_new_packages

Subscribing ubuntu-release, unsubscribing ubuntu-sponsors for now.

Approved on the understanding that this isn't destined for any Raring release media. Moving back to ubuntu-sponsors.

This fixes Maintainer:, Standards-Version:, and a typo in the description. However, there are several problems which prevent uploading:

- The original tarball does not have any license document nor any copyright statements.
- There should be a debian/rules get-orig-source rule to construct the original tarball, as this isn't shipped anywhere in this form. (See http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html)
- The short description of the two binary packages is identical

Please re-subscribe ubuntu-sponsors once you have a fixed package.

Thanks!

Martin, I can certainly address two of those comments. In terms of generating the tarball, it was not easy at all. I did it by writing a Python tool to sync the audio files from Voxforge, then configure and run sphinxtrain against them.

See: https://launchpad.net/voxforge-sphinx-train/

Is it possible to add a pointer to this program instead of automated rules? It takes >12 hours of computation time on a 8 core 16GB computer to do it also..

Also, the short descriptions are not identical. One is described as an acoustic model, the other a language model. :)

There is already an (admittedly short) description of where the original tarball comes from in the debian/watch file. Is this information inadequate?

The new tarball has a GPL-v2 COPYING file in it now, and I've applied your other changes, too.

I have improved the debian watch file description in the latest upload.

Uploaded. Unsubscribing sponsors for now.

sphinx-voxforge-en is in Raring and Saucy