> >> It is unclear to me what benefit making a package would > >> bring. > > exactly the same benefits as any other package of firefox extension: > Presumably these benefits are minor, as there are relatively few firefox > extensions in the package repositories. I bet your pardon, their 'minor' is 'major' for me, whenever I am to administer such a computational server with 30 users and want to make them use zotero.
> > zotero needs pdftotext and pdfinfo tools to be present or otherwise > > suggests to download them for you and place in its directory. > In the past, at least, zotero needed /modified/ versions of these > utilities. The system-supplied versions may or may not work now (I > haven't checked; I advised them how to make them work on all platforms, > but I don't think they've pushed these changes yet). The changes to > these utilities are minor (e.g. adding file output), but have not been > accepted by upstream as far as I know. I hope they make zotero compatible with upstream versions of the tools... btw on their VCS I see only changes to https://www.zotero.org/trac/browser/tools/xpdf/pdfinfo.cc so there is a hope that pdftotext is fine as is in Debian? ;-) For me, trial on zotero failed miserably -- after a crash of firefox, zotero fails to open its own database (.bak file was already bad one after 'failed' opening)... and I reluctant at this point to investigate the problem due to shortage of time... but I might give zotero another try whenever it is in Debian since it would make it much easier to file a bug report than using their forums. -- Yaroslav Halchenko Research Assistant, Psychology Department, Rutgers-Newark Student Ph.D. @ CS Dept. NJIT Office: (973) 353-1412 | FWD: 82823 | Fax: (973) 353-1171 101 Warren Str, Smith Hall, Rm 4-105, Newark NJ 07102 WWW: http://www.linkedin.com/in/yarik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
