Re: Bug#299816: installdeb-myspell is unable to install openoffice hypenation files

[Agustin Martin <agustin.martin@hispalinux.es>]

On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 11:27:09PM +0100, Agustin Martin wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 08:00:07PM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote:
> > Package: dictionaries-common-dev
> > 
> > $ cat $ cat debian/info-myspell
> > DICT da DK da_DK
> > HYPH da DK hyph_da_DK
> > 
> > $ installdeb-myspell --srcdir=da_DK/hyph
> > Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/bin/installdeb-myspell line 33, <COMPAT_IN> line 4.
> > There is no da_DK/hyph/da_DK.aff file here
> > Please see .
> 
> Hi, Mathias
> 
> It is not intended for that, please see the man page,
> 
> ----------------
> OPTIONS
>  --srcdir=dir  Will look for .aff/.dic files in the specified directory
>                and install them in the default target directory. Base
>                name will be extracted from the info-myspell file
> ---------------
> 
> Since I agree that this is a nice thing to add I am not closing this bug
> report, but setting it severity wishlist.

Hi, Matthias,

I have been playing with a way of using installdeb-myspell also to install
hyphenation ooo files and add the appropriate debhelper snippets. In the
course of this I noticed that this has nothing to to with myspell itself,
apart from sharing the same dictionaries.lst file and that the hyph files
are installed under /usr/share/myspell, but with the diferent hyphenation
packages.

I have prepared an installdeb-myspell that does that, and since I find that
this can be useful for ooo hyphen packages to use the same dictionaries.lst
updating mechanism as myspell dicts I am cc'ing the debian-openoffice list
for feedback.

myspell dicts would do as usual, and ooo hyhpenation packages could do
something like (package stands for the package name and using da_DK as an
example)

debian/package.info-myspell:
HYPH da DK hyph_da_DK

(better not change the -myspell prefix, even if this is not myspell)

debian/rules:

In the build target,

installdeb-myspell -ppackage --srcdir=.

This should try to install hyph_da_DK.dic from the current dict into
/usr/share/myspell/dicts and create the appropriate debhelper snippets so
update-openoffice-dicts is called and dictionaries.lst updated.

Comments?

Cheers,

-- 
Agustin