Hi folks, at the OpenOffice.org conference this April Chris Halls and me used some free time to think about the packaging of Spellchecks again and how to improve it. We there outlined ideas for a new policy which since a few days are included in the dictionaries-common package(s). OpenOffice.org 1.1rc (openoffice.org and openoffice.org-dictionaries) were uploaded to sid nnd entered it now and openoffice.org-dictionaries already contains some "new-style myspell-packages". Alessandro, Paul: The new 'dictionaries' module in OpenOffice.org 1.1 (of which openoffice.rog-dictionaries is built) does already contain en_GB respectively it_IT. So no need to package them anymore. Sorry guys... I am sorry for the long delay wrt announcing that but it didn't make sense to announce it while 1.0.3-2 was the up to date version in unstable ince the "new policy packages" don't work with openoffice.org <= 1.0.3-2 and therefore should conflict with them anyhow... As I already wrote, the new format is described in the "Debian Spelling Dictionaries and Tools Policy" which can be found on http://dict-common.alioth.debian.org and in the dictionaries-common-dev package. Please be aware that the policy says "depend on dictionaries-common (>= 0.10)" yet, where it for compatibility woody backport of OOo should be "dictionaries-common (>= 0.10) | openoffice.org-updatedicts." I am going to upload a new policy and dictionaries-common-* after I tested an upgrade.... There is a template in the Debian OpenOffice.org CVS repository you can check out[1] and helps you when you produce only one deb out of the source (assuming you take the unzipped zip renamed as source package). Someone of you asked some time ago why the template is not anymore based on unzipping the zip file and then copying the things around -- I don't know :P It's just a matter of taste. You can do what you want as long as you give the source package name a good one "no openoffice.org-* please) and the binary deb contains the right things :) This template is designed for creating _one_ myspell-* package from one source package only containing a dict. If you have more myspell-* packages to create or do want to package a hyphenation-* or thesaurus-* too, you'll have to create your own structure or modify the template appropriately. An example could be the openoffice.org-dictionaries source package which can be found at http://people.debian.org/~rene/openoffice.org/dicts/ or in the pool. If you have packaged a dictionary and you need someone to sopnsor it you can a mail Chris or me[2], write a posting to debian-openoffice@lists.debian.org or poke us on #debian-oo/irc.debian.org telling us what you have done and where we can find the source package -- we'll check and upload the package(s) to sid when they are OK. So, have fun packaging myspell packages! :-) Grüße/Regards, René [1] CVSROOT=":pserver:anonymous@cvs.debian.org:/cvs/debian-openoffice" export CVSROOT cvs login <emtpy password> cvs co myspell-debian-template [2] halls@debian.org respectively rene@debian.org -- .''`. Rene Engelhard -- Debian GNU/Linux Developer : :' : http://www.debian.org | http://people.debian.org/~rene/ `. `' rene@debian.org | GnuPG-Key ID: 248AEB73 `- Fingerprint: 41FA F208 28D4 7CA5 19BB 7AD9 F859 90B0 248A EB73
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