On 2016-03-02 11:32, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > umh, actually I was talking about the migrating away from the > myspell-* packages built by lo-dicts, I didn't check the list of > those produced by ubuntu, but now I see there is a missing > transitional package for myspell-en-us. I recall now that I wanted to > move that to src:hunspell-en-us, but totally forgot to do.
I see. In Ubuntu it's most important that hunspell-en-us is removed from the blacklist and built, isn't it? A transitional myspell-en-us package shouldn't be necessary in Ubuntu any longer (but wouldn't hurt). > If we do that we would take over several binaries from other > sources, that means that some of those sources may become pointless > and just be removed from the archive (in ubuntu). That's true. Some of the myspell-* packages, which would be overridden this way, are quite old and poorly maintained. Assuming that the dictionaries provided by lo-dicts are more up-to-date, it would be a convenient way to get rid of them. Admittedly a bold way. > That needs to be backed by somebody else, I can't really help here > (it was a way longer term plan for me), and not sure we would do that > in during FF. > It would indeed be nice to kick all those other packages, though. Letting hunspell-* packages co-exist in the archive with conflicting myspell-* packages, as you now do in Debian, doesn't fit very well with how language-selector pulls those packages. Without the transitional packages, the users would be prompted to install hunspell-* packages anyway. Of course, they have the option to not install them. OTOH, maybe we could see this as a 'soft transition' away from old myspell-* packages. Ubuntu users would be prompted to install hunspell-*, and most would just accept. If there proves to be many users who prefer a conflicting myspell-* package, for whatever reason, some of them would find the language-selector prompting irritating, and let us know. Is that a reasonable way to look at it? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1510198 Title: [FFe] Sync (almost) with libreoffice-dictionaries in Debian sid To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/language-selector/+bug/1510198/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
