Bug#503157: Dependency on oo.org is annoying.
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 11:26:18AM +1100, Trent W. Buck wrote:
> Package: openoffice.org-hyphenation-en-us
> Version: 2.4-2
> Severity: minor
>
> The 2.4-2 to 2.4-4 upgrade adds a dependency on openoffice.org. This
> is annoying, because my pyhyphen and wordaxe packages (not uploaded
> yet) make use of these hyphenation files, but don't use openoffice.org
> itself.
twb> Hmm, the change was done due to #502759; the hyphenation data
twb> packages call an oo.org update script to tell oo.org about
twb> themselves
Odd_Bloke> twb: Yeah, that was roughly the conclusion I reached.
twb> Seems to me it would be better to call the update-dicts thing
twb> only if oo.org is already installed, and have oo.org also look
twb> for any that are already installed
Odd_Bloke> One solution, off the top of my head, would be to split the data
Odd_Bloke> into a separate package (which you could depend on) and
Odd_Bloke> haveopenoffice.org-hyphenation-en-us depend on that package also.
twb> Odd_Bloke: well openoffice.org-hyphenation-en-us is just one .dic file
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