Bug#156044: Fallback to English help doesn't work
On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 01:10:53PM +0200, Gaute Hvoslef Kvalnes wrote:
> No, it's the other way around. The symlink above is not needed, because German
> OOo will look up help from the de directory.
Yes, you are right. I didn't get this behaviour when I tried doing this
last time; the wrapper script bug must have got in the way or something.
Thanks for the info.
> I don't know the Mandrake packages, but perhaps they are even more
> sophisticated? A possible improvement would be to allow partial help
> packages, with for example only Writer help. This will not work without
> modifying the source.
Mandrake's patch looks for help in <lang> and falls back to en (?) if that
is not available.
Improvements that involve source modifications would be better off taken to
upstream's bug reporting system - we don't have to manpower to manage those
on top of the packages.
> The simple solution is to remove the conflict, and remove the symlink en ->
> language. Then you can have multiple help packages installed without any
> problems at all.
Yes, that sounds like a good idea.
> I don't know what would be the best way to implement the symlinks I propose
> (language -> en). Perhaps the openoffice.org-help-en package could create
> them all at once, skipping those that are already installed. Any other help
> package would then have to check if the symlink to en exists, and remove it
> before installing the translated files.
Mandrake's patch is probably a better solution, or maybe we can find a
configuration variable somewhere that specifies the directory - maybe I
accidentally found it when I was experiencing different behaviour to you.
Chris
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