Bug#177322: openoffice.org: Up to date French spelling package ?

[Jerome Warnier <jwarnier@bxlug.be>]

Emmanuel Charpentier wrote:
> Package: openoffice.org
> Version: 1.0.1-7
> Severity: wishlist
>
> The current French language package has no "unstable" spellchecker 
> available through Debian. I found and installed the original port from 
> the German group which has ported OpenOffice.org (my sources.list has 
> deb http://ftp.freenet.de/pub/ftp.vpn-junkies.de/openoffice/ unstable 
> main contrib). But I feel this solution inadequate : said package is 
> outdated and incomplete (to hyphenator).
>
> As far as I can tell, the "official" French dictionaries are up to 
> date and released under GPL, and  thus can be distributed on Debian. 
> Would it be possible to integrate them in unstable ?
I'm sorry, I'm in charge of that, but I need to work a little bit on it.
Would you be interested, and capable, in helping?

> Sincerely,
>
> 					E. Charpentier