Add debian maintainer assistant This patch add a helper script for maintainers of Debian FreeDict packages. See the documentation of that script to find out more.
Drop dependency on deprecated python module distutils The python module distutils is deprecated. Hence, the code was reworked to work with semver. This is an upstream patch.
strip unused scripts and targets from installation By default, the upstream Makefile installs Python scripts in a very non-standard way to a very non-standard location. Since these are not required for building dictionaries, they are not installed with this package. This also removes the Make targets to invoke them.