Bug#503157: Dependency on oo.org is annoying.
Hi René,
What is the status of this bug?
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 08:22:02PM +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote:
>>>> Hmm, the change was done due to #502759; the hyphenation data
>>>> packages call an oo.org update script to tell oo.org about
>>>> 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.
>
> And since neither of your both packages are yet anywhere except on
> some unofficial place...
The python-wordaxe package is now in Sid, but the python-hyphen
package has not been sponsored yet; I have to fix some bugs in my
packaging first. Only python-hyphen needs the .dic files.
> For OOo 3.0 we can get rid of dictionary.lst anyway, so we can get
> rid of the dictionaries-common dep. For the OOo dep, we could do a
> dependency like the myspell/hunspell packages (though they don't
> have libs like libenchant there either, so why should we have
> python-enchant there? - and libs like libenchant and python-hyphen
> should not depend on dicts anyway) - and maybe rename
> openoffice.org-hyphenation to something not OOo-centric, but the
> only real application in Debian using those dicts so far is OOo
OK, so this issue is "on hold" until you package OOo 3.0?
> (what is wordaxe btw?)
Python-hyphen is basically a wrapper for libhyphen/libhnj so that
Python programs can use that C library.
Python-wordaxe is a library that provides a different hyphenation
algorithm, designed to work with German.
I don't care about these packages, except that the rst2pdf package
needs both of them to produce hyphenated PDFs. Without hyphenation,
the PDFs are hard to read.
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