Bug#503157: Dependency on oo.org is annoying.
Hi,
Trent W. Buck wrote:
> 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
Not exactly true. It calls a dictionaries-common script. So for 502759
the dictioniaries-common dep is enough.
The OOo dependency is just there because (falsely thinking?) you need a OOo
to make us of the dic.
> 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.
No, that would not make sense, and you would not get after the
ftp-masters with that anyway. (one empty package and one package with a
.dic)...
Grüße/Regards,
René
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