Source: tesseract Version: 4.00~git2439-c3ed6f03-1 Severity: normal tesseract fails to build on Debian stretch because the tesseract-ocr-eng build-dep needs to be versioned so that the right version of it is installed.
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make[1]: Entering directory '/build/tesseract-4.00~git2439-c3ed6f03'
./src/api/tesseract ./testing/phototest.tif - -
Error opening data file /usr/share/tesseract-ocr/4.00/tessdata/eng.traineddata
Please make sure the TESSDATA_PREFIX environment variable is set to your
"tessdata" directory.
Failed loading language 'eng'
Tesseract couldn't load any languages!
Could not initialize tesseract.
debian/rules:34: recipe for target 'override_dh_auto_test' failed
make[1]: *** [override_dh_auto_test] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/build/tesseract-4.00~git2439-c3ed6f03'
debian/rules:19: recipe for target 'build' failed
make: *** [build] Error 2
dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build gave error exit status 2
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$ dpkg -L tesseract-ocr-eng | grep eng.traineddata
/usr/share/tesseract-ocr/tessdata/eng.traineddata
$ grep ocr-eng debian/control
xsltproc, docbook-xsl, docbook-xml, tesseract-ocr-eng
tesseract-ocr-eng (>= 4.00~), tesseract-ocr-osd (>= 4.00~), libtesseract4 (>=
4.00~)
tesseract-ocr-deu, tesseract-ocr-ell, tesseract-ocr-eng,
tesseract-ocr-fin,
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