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coolreader 3.2.59+git20260725+ds-1

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Descriptioncross-platform XML/CSS based e-book reader

CoolReader is a fast and small cross-platform XML/CSS based e-book reader for desktops and handheld devices.

Supported formats include FB2, TXT, RTF, DOC, TCR, HTML, EPUB, CHM, PDB and MOBI. Books can be formatted through external CSS stylesheets, and the reader supports tables of contents, bookmarks, text search and hyphenation dictionaries.

MaintainerEmfox Zhou <emfox@debian.org>
Changed ByEmfox Zhou <emfox@debian.org>
Sponsoremfox@debian.org
Distributionunstable
Architectureany
VCSgit: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/coolreader.git (browse)
Closes#715470
Trackerhttps://tracker.debian.org/pkg/coolreader
Uploaded3 hours ago

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Changed-ByEmfox Zhou
Architecturesource amd64
Distributionunstable
DateThu, 17 Sep 2026 01:07:20 +0800
Sourcecoolreader
Version3.2.59+git20260725+ds-1
Changelog
coolreader (3.2.59+git20260725+ds-1) unstable; urgency=medium
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   * Initial release (Closes: #1021451, #715470)
     Upstream sources taken from master (dcc2d4c8, 2026-07-25) rather than
     the cr3.2.59 tag of 2021-08-31: the tag predates Qt6 support, and the
     two trees differ by 1218 files (337238 insertions, 636609 deletions).
     Versioned +git20260725 to mark this as a snapshot between 3.2.59 and
     the eventual 3.2.60.
   * Document the appdata.xml metadata license in debian/copyright.
   * Document how to reproduce the orig tarball in debian/README.source.
   * Add debian/.gitignore so the quilt patches stay tracked.
   * Use a reverse-DNS AppStream ID (io.github.buggins.coolreader).
   * Add a Keywords entry to the desktop file.
   * Drop the obsolete FSF postal address from debian/copyright.
   * Enable bindnow hardening.
.dsc
Package-Listcoolreader deb text optional arch=any
Sectiontext
Priorityoptional
Componentmain
debian/copyright
Format: https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/
Upstream-Name: CoolReader
Upstream-Contact: Vadim Lopatin <coolreader.org@gmail.com>
Source: https://github.com/buggins/coolreader
Comment: The sources are taken from a commit on the master branch rather than
 from a release tag; see debian/README.source for the rationale and for the
 instructions to reproduce the orig tarball.
Files-Excluded: android
 cr3wx
 thirdparty_unman/antiword/Docs/testdoc.doc
 thirdparty_unman/chmlib/ChmLib-ce.zip
 thirdparty_unman/chmlib/ChmLib-ds6.zip
 thirdparty_unman/antiword/Resources

Files: *
Copyright: 2005-2021, Vadim Lopatin <coolreader.org@gmail.com>
           2018, Sergey Torokhov <torokhov-s-a@yandex.ru>
           2018-2021, Aleksey Chernov <valexlin@gmail.com>
           2010-2014, Vadim Lopatin <coolreader.org@gmail.com>
License: GPL-2+

Files: cr3qt/src/desktop/cr3.appdata.xml
Copyright: 2019, Sergey Torokhov <torokhov-s-a@yandex.ru>
License: CC0-1.0

Files: debian/*
Copyright: 2026, Emfox Zhou <emfox@debian.org>
License: GPL-2+

Files: thirdparty_unman/antiword/*
Copyright: 1998-2004, A.J. van Os
License: GPL-2+
Comment: Vendored rather than used from the system antiword package: the
 bundled copy is patched (see CR3_ANTIWORD_PATCH in
 thirdparty_unman/antiword/CMakeLists.txt) so that it builds as a library with
 only the text-extraction entry points, dropping the command-line front end and
 the PDF/PostScript writers.  Debian's antiword 0.37 provides only the
 standalone program and does not install a linkable library, so it cannot be
 substituted here.

Files: thirdparty_unman/chmlib/*
Copyright: Jed Wing <jedwin@ugcs.caltech.edu>
License: LGPL-2.1
Comment: Vendored rather than used from the system chmlib package: upstream
 ships a patched copy (see the comment above the add_subdirectory() call for
 chmlib in CMakeLists.txt) and builds it statically into the reader engine.
 Debian's libchm-dev would work for an unmodified build, but the local patches
 have not been forwarded, so the bundled sources are kept for now.

Files: thirdparty_unman/nanosvg/*
Copyright: 2013-2014, Mikko Mononen <memon@inside.org>
License: Zlib
Comment: Vendored rather than used from the system package: nanosvg has no
 separate Debian source package (the SVG loading in librsvg is a completely
 different implementation, and libnanosvg does not exist in the archive).

Files: thirdparty_unman/qimagescale/*
Copyright: 2004-2005, Daniel M. Duley
           2000, Carsten Haitzler and various contributors
License: BSD-2-clause and Imlib2
Comment: Vendored rather than used from the system package: this is a small
 internal helper (qimagetransform) contributed to CoolReader and derived from
 Imlib2; it is not packaged separately in Debian.

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