Bundled copies of the Porter stemmer library

[Florian Weimer]

On 04/18/2013 04:32 PM, Petr Pisar wrote:
> On 2013-04-17, Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat.com> wrote:
>> Ugh, hit "Send" too soon.
>>
>> I found some packages which embed copies of the Porter stemmer library
>> (PostgreSQL, tracker, pl, etc.).  Should I file bugs once I have the
>> full list, or should I apply for a bundling exception?
>>
>> I don't know if the existing copies are patched in significant ways.
>
> The SWI Prologue (pl package) modifies the code and modifes the old
> Relase 1 (current Porter's release is
> 2 <http://tartarus.org/martin/PorterStemmer/c.txt>).

I think you're packaging the newer Snowball-generated stemmers.  Those 
are available from <http://snowball.tartarus.org/>, and there are actual 
release tarballs (albeit unversioned ones).  As you can see, upstream 
has added support for additional languages which you still have to pick 
up.  This upstream development activity seems to be a fairly strong 
argument against bundling.

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Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security Team