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Descriptioncross-platform open source e-book reader using crengine-ng

crqt-ng is an e-book reader with a Qt 6 user interface, built on the crengine-ng rendering library. It reads fb2, fb3, epub (without DRM), doc, docx, odt, rtf, pdb, mobi (without DRM), txt, html, Markdown, chm and tcr files, and offers CSS styling, hyphenation dictionaries, multiple tabs, text search, reading books straight from ZIP archives and flexible font rendering.

It is the Qt frontend of the crengine-ng family, a fork of CoolReader maintained by the same upstream author. Debian already has src:coolreader, which bundles the older engine together with its own Qt frontend; the two are co-installable, because crqt-ng ships /usr/bin/crqt and uses /usr/share/crqt, while coolreader ships /usr/bin/coolreader and uses /usr/share/cr3.

MaintainerEmfox Zhou <emfox@debian.org>
Changed ByEmfox Zhou <emfox@debian.org>
Sponsoremfox@debian.org
Distributionunstable
Architectureany
VCSgit: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/crqt-ng.git (browse)
Closes#1033576
Trackerhttps://tracker.debian.org/pkg/crqt-ng
Uploaded3 hours ago

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Version1.0.15-1
Changed-ByEmfox Zhou
Architecturesource amd64
Distributionunstable
DateSun, 20 Sep 2026 19:54:26 +0800
Sourcecrqt-ng
Changelog
crqt-ng (1.0.15-1) unstable; urgency=medium
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   * Initial release (Closes: #1033576)
   * Add a Keywords entry to the desktop file.
   * Add patches/fix-cmake-minimum-required.patch: move
     cmake_minimum_required() before project() and raise the minimum to
     3.14, so that CMake 4 no longer rejects the tree.
   * Add patches/fix-appstream-metadata.patch: name the AppStream metadata and
     the desktop file after a reverse-DNS component ID and point the bug
     tracker at an URL that still resolves, as upstream did after 1.0.15.
   * Add a manual page for crqt.
   * Depend on pkgconf for the autopkgtest that builds against the installed
     library, as pkg-config is an obsolete package name.
   * Document the AppStream metadata's CC0-1.0 licence in debian/copyright,
     where it differs from the GPL-2+ of the rest of the tree.
   * Document how to reproduce the orig tarball in debian/README.source.
   * Depend on fonts-liberation so a usable Truetype font is always present,
     as crengine-ng itself does not ship one.
   * Enable bindnow hardening.
.dsc
Componentmain
Package-Listcrqt-ng deb text optional arch=any
Sectiontext
Priorityoptional
debian/copyright
Format: https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/
Upstream-Name: crqt-ng
Upstream-Contact: Aleksey Chernov <valexlin@gmail.com>
Source: https://gitlab.com/coolreader-ng/crqt-ng
Comment: The sources are taken from the 1.0.15 release tag; see
 debian/README.source for the instructions to reproduce the orig tarball.

Files: *
Copyright: 2018-2024, Aleksey Chernov <valexlin@gmail.com>
           2023, Ren Tatsumoto <tatsu@autistici.org>
           2021, ourairquality <info@ourairquality.org>
           2020-2021, Andy Mender <andymenderunix@gmail.com>
           2008-2021, Vadim Lopatin <coolreader.org@gmail.com>
           2020, Daniel Bedrenko <d.bedrenko@gmail.com>
           2019-2020, Konstantin Potapov <pkbo@users.sourceforge.net>
           2018, Sergey Torokhov <torokhov-s-a@yandex.ru>
           2018, phi <crispyfrog@163.com>
           2018, EXL <exlmotodev@gmail.com>
           2018, Mihail Slobodyanuk <slobodyanukma@gmail.com>
           2012, Olexandr Nesterenko <olexn@ukr.net>
License: GPL-2+

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

Files: .ci/clang-format-diff.py
Copyright: The LLVM Project
License: Apache-2.0 with LLVM exception
Comment: The style-check helper comes from the LLVM project (Debian's clang
 carries the same script); .ci/README.md records that this copy and
 run-style-check-diff.sh were taken over from the GTK repository.

Files: src/desktop/crqt.appdata.xml
Copyright: 2022-2024, Aleksey Chernov <valexlin@gmail.com>
License: CC0-1.0
Comment: The AppStream metadata carries metadata_license CC0-1.0 and is
 distributed under that licence rather than under the GPL-2+ of the rest of
 the tree.

Files: cmake/modules/Qt5TranslationToolsMacros.cmake
       cmake/modules/Qt6TranslationToolsMacros.cmake
Copyright: 2005-2011, Kitware, Inc.
License: BSD-3-clause
Comment: Taken from CMake (Qt5LinguistToolsMacros.cmake), modified in 2016 by
 Aleksey Chernov.

Files: tools/gentoo/crqt-ng-x.y.z.ebuild
Copyright: 1999-2024, Gentoo Authors
License: GPL-2+
Comment: A template for the Gentoo ebuild of this package; its header states
 that it is distributed under version 2 of the GNU General Public License.

Files: data/backgrounds/*.jpg
       data/textures/*.jpg
Copyright: CoolReader contributors
License: GPL-2+
Comment: Background and texture images inherited from CoolReader.  They were
 added to the tree in commit b9e0641 (2011-01-30, "Qt: add texture files to
 installation") and carry no separate licence notice, so the licence of the
 project as a whole applies.

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