Bug#156044: Fallback to English help doesn't work

[Chris Halls <chris.halls@gmx.de>]

You must have version skew somewhere.  The behaviour you are describing is
not the behaviour of the packages, which is:

 - Only one -help package is installable at once - they conflict with each
   other.

 - Each help package installs its help files in
   /usr/lib/openoffice/help/<lang>, and creates a link that points to the
   real language.  For example:

   drwxr-xr-x    8 root     root         4096 Sep 11 20:20 de
   lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            2 Sep 11 20:20 en -> de

So, the symlink that you mentioned is created for you, and help is only ever
available in one language for the whole system.

Yes, it would be nice to have such a system where help is installable in
several languages, with a fallback to English, but this requires source
modifications.  The Mandrake packages already have them but I haven't had
time to apply yet.

Chris