Hi Sam,

On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 04:54:10PM +0100, Sam Morris wrote:
/usr/share/moin/data/dict contains an empty 'dummy_dict' file. It would be cool if it contained a symlink to the (absolute) path /usr/share/dict/words so that wikis created on the system would have working spellchecking by default. :)

thanks for the suggestion.

If I recall correctly (it was quite some time ago I setup this part of the packaging) the reason for not doing this is that preferred system language (used by e.g. cracklib) might very well be different from webapp language, and wrong dictionary is worse than no dictionary IMO.

Maybe ask via debconf if the system dictionary should be used or not.

I also seem to recall that Moin supports multiple dictionary files, so an alternative could be to ask _which_ dictionaries to use via a freeform debconf string defaulting to "words", and symlink all provided words from that string.


 - Jonas

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