Hallo Agustin,
Sounds very very good :)
Just an idea: Maybe a sample package would be helpful as a reference? (I can
prepare one after my vacation)
Tobias
(Btw, Should the snippet read --with aspell-simple?)
On 27. März 2014 15:13:21 MEZ, Agustin Martin <agmar...@debian.org> wrote:
>2014-03-07 12:35 GMT+01:00 Agustin Martin <agmar...@debian.org>:
>>
>> I have been working on these new uploads during this week and now
>would like
>> to have spare time for other things. Will try to find time to start
>> ellaborating on those points.
>
>Hi,
>
>Had little time last weeks, so I only wrote a minimal draft for the
>message. I did some testing on the symlinks stuff at experimental and
>seems to work well, so it will soon be time to try that in real life.
>
>Here goes the draft, it is rather "light", but at least a minimal
>starting point.
>
># ------------------------
>Dear spellchecking dictionaries and wordlists maintainers,
>
>There were some recent changes in the system that may be interesting
>for your package, after initial work by Andreas Beckmann and Tobias
>Frost. Read below some reasons to consider upgrading your package and
>use some of the new features.
>
>* aspell-simple:
>
> This is new feature intended to make things easier for people
> maintaining aspell dictionaries created from pristine aspell
> sources (created with aspell "proc" utility, as are those fetched
> from aspell home page) that create nothing else than the aspell
> dictionary package.
>
> In these cases, debian/rules can be made as compact as
>
> # ===== 8< =====
> #!/usr/bin/make -f
>
> %:
> dh $@ --with aspell
>
> # this is not a GNU autoconf/automake build system
> override_dh_auto_configure:
> ./configure
> # ===== >8 =====
>
>* substvars:
>
> Added support for ${wordlist:Depends}, ${ispell:Depends},
> ${aspell:Depends} and ${hunspell:Depends} substvars.
>
>* ispell/aspell autobuildhash symlinks:
>
> Build structure and autobuildhash scripts have been changed to allow
> those symlinks being no longer shipped with the package but created
> by the ispell or aspell autobuildhash script.
>
> A list of automatically created symlinks is put in a .remove list
> to make sure they are removed from postrm. Dangling symlinks are
> searched for and removed at the trigger run (this last may have been
> enough, but having .remove files does not harm).
>
> This way we no longer need to ship any dangling symlink with the
> package.
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