On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 12:11:44AM +0100, Rene Engelhard wrote: > OpenOffice.org 3.0.0 removed the need for a dictionary.lst (but still > honoured it but since 3.0.1 rc1 it does not do even that anymore.). We now > can specify the paths of the dicts separately (and that even distinct > for dicts, hyph patters and thesauri) > > Fortunately the naming scheme for the dictionaries didn't change, so the > packages' contents don't need to change - except that > - .info-myspell is obsolete > - the packages do not need to carll update-openoffice-dicts anymore > - update-openoffice-dicts is not needed anymore > > I think we should do the transition asap for squeeze and remove > dictionary.lst.
If possible, I would like squeeze hunspell dicts to work in lenny ooo without manual intervention. For that reason I am for keeping the calls, in case the dictionary is used from lenny. I would change the dictionaries.lst header to explain that is left there *only* for backwards compatibility of the dictionary. May be put the obsolete stuff in an special place in the policy document. Regarding .info files, I have sent to the FSF emacs repo some changes to the ispell interface to work better with hunspell. I would like current .info file (probably renamed) to become more like those for aspell .., with info for emacs, helping prepare a list of available hunspell dictionaries with the right language mapping (e.g., american ->en_US). I did not yet ellaborate that too much, but I will try a bit more when I have time. lenny hunspell does not output a version string in piped mode, so will not benefit from that, but will work for lenny+1 (works with current version in experimental) > I propose the following diff, which - if you have no objections - will > upload to experimental together with OOo 3.0.1 and together to sid with it. > > http://people.debian.org/~rene/openoffice.org/dictionary-lst-gone.diff Be careful, that .diff contains a lot of changes in the lisp code, result of applying the dpatches during the build process. Make sure you run 'fakeroot debian/rules clean' afterwards (is not automatically done), so patches are unapplied. gitk is your friend. I will not have much free time these days, will be back to this when possible. I will then look really at the code instead of just a quick look at the .diff. Since lenny is taking longer than expected, we have time. Best wishes, -- Agustin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-openoffice-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
