Hi Norbert, On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 04:30:10PM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote: > Hi Nicholas, > > > I just noticed that Calibre's description is out of date. "Calibre > > has a modular device driver design that makes adding support for > > Thanks, I will fix that. Do you have any suggestion? > > > P.S, off-topic, if no one else would like to maintain a stretch bpo of > > it, I have a local (formal) backport of 3.14.0+dfsg-1. Because it's a > > What about doing the development for bpo in the same repo as main? > I have moved calibre to salsa.debian.org > https://salsa.debian.org/preining/calibre > What about you join there and I add you to the repository? Then you can > push separate branches (like stretch-bpo) etc.
I couldn't find a join button... Here is my salsa.d.o profile page: https://salsa.debian.org/sten-guest My GPG key is E2A6261E3900AED7CDC667085A8830475F7D1061, it is in the Debian Maintainer keyring, and I have signed this email with it. > > I'm already using the bpo, because I have a new Kobo. > > Which one? ;-) I was given an Aura One as a Christmas present :-D It's a little bit too thin to hold onto comfortably, and has some backlight bleed (green and pink) issues, the screen refresh rate is a bit slower than a Kindle, and it doesn't have the nice vocabulary-building tools of a Kindle, but I love it for its large screen, automatic brightness and red/yellow shifting white balance, and waterproof design. I was also surprised to find that it feels more Star Trek than a tablet. ;-) Do you know of a good English (or French) to Mandarin travel dictionary? It will be nice to not be completely helpless in Taipei and Hsinchu city for Debconf, you know? But on the topic of Calibre. I'm not sure when Aura One support was added, but calibre-2.75 isn't new enough, 3.8 is new enough for the original 2016 firmware, but 3.8 is not new enough after syncing/updating the Kobo firmware. Other than for personal use and enabling new device support for general end-users I believe Calibre is a valuable backport, because it is a tool that librarians depend on. My best friend has told me that a unit on Calibre use (and the importance of using an up-to-date version) is a component of many--maybe most--masters degrees in Library Science. Thank you! Nicholas
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