Quoting Agustin Martin (agmartin@debian.org): > Regarding dictionaries settings (ispell dicts and wordlists), there is also > code in dictionaries-common to handle that, unless the relevant debconf > value is already set. > > Current status was that localization-config sets ispell dictionary-default > after initial country/lang settings, so dictionaries-common skip this, but > does the job for wordlists, where localization-config does nothing. I do not > know if this has changed recently. > > In a bug report [#277410 localization-config: Provide wordlist preseeding > also for dictionaries-common] I explained how the dictionaries-common system > works for default selection and why I think there is no need to add anything > for wordlists, because current code already handles that. Well, it is very likely that you are right. Indeed, l-c is mostly meant to circumvent defects on default installs. In a perfect worls where all packages properly use the locale settings to set their defaults, there should be no need for l-c...:-) So, actually, what you suggest is that l-c does nothing with regards to dictionaries and wordlists, when the local system is an etch system, right? I agreee with that approach and, if the activity on l-c revives, I would recommend removing the code dealing with dictionaries and wordlists. This will need either Konstantinos to come back to hacking life....or someone else to help on l-c maintenance. I have just been able to revive it a little. Just enough for running it during d-i installs, but there's a lot of testing to do....and probably some code to change....and, for this, we need a good Perl programmer. Gerfried Fuchs mentioned in Extremadura that he will look at l-c.....I'm just afraid that he maybe has been too ambitious with his time...:-)
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