Re: [Dict-common-dev] {My, Hun}spell dicts and OOo hyphenations/thesauri transition
2009/8/3 Rene Engelhard <rene.engelhard@gmx.de>:
> Hi,
>
> I want to get this mess fixed up as soon as possible:
>
> (sid)rene@frodo:/usr/share/myspell/dicts$ ls
> de-BE.aff de_DE.dic DicOOo.sxw en-US.dic th_de_DE_v2.idx
> de-BE.dic de-DE.dic en_US.aff hyph_de_DE.dic th_en_US_v2.dat
> de_DE.aff de-LU.aff en-US.aff hyph_en_US.dic th_en_US_v2.idx
> de-DE.aff de-LU.dic en_US.dic th_de_DE_v2.dat
> (sid)rene@frodo:/usr/share/myspell/dicts$
...
>
> Since OpenOffice.org formerly only supported one directory for all its
> spellchecking dictionaries and hyphenation patterns and thesauri we
> all dumped them into /usr/share/myspell/dicts with a symlink from
> <ooo installdir>/share/dict/ooo to there.
> After the Mozillas started to use MySpell/Hunspell, too, they point
> to the same directory...
>
> Now, since OpenOffice.org is able to use more paths and the Mozillas
> still only use one for the spellchecking ones (and the scribus'es might
> use one for the hyphenation ones soon), it's probably a good idea to clean
> this up right now.
>
> The plan is as follows:
>
> 1) all hyphenation patterns (hyph_*.dic) will move to /usr/share/hyphen.
> OOo can be configured with --with-external-hyph-dir to look there,
> scribus can add a symlink there or add a configure thing, too
> 2) all thesauri (th_*.{idx,dat}) will move to /usr/share/mythes
> OOo (only one using it) can be configured with --with-external-thes-dir
> to look there
> 3) the hunspell dictionaries should move to /usr/share/hunspell.
> OOo gets configured with --with-external-dict-dir. Hunspell itself
> looks there anyway and the symlinks in the Mozillas get changed
>
> To not have a transition involving OOo and the mozillas (and eventually
> some transitions which they are in) and all dicts together we talked on
> debconf how to best do it and came up with the following:
>
> STEP 1 (now!)
> ------
> All dictionary packages get changed for the new location but KEEP the old
> one.
>
> STEP 2 (before squeezes freeze)
> ------
> all affected packages get changed to look in the new location/change
> the symlink to the new location. Let them migrate to testing.
>
> This would break partial upgrades when someone partially installed
> the new OOo/Mozilla/... with old, non-yet-changed packages, but we decided
> to ignore this possibility. Or, if STEP 1 was completed *in testing* we
> can add appropriate Breaks:
>
> STEP 3
> ------
> Remove the /usr/share/myspell/dicts compatibility links. This also means
> patching dictionaries-common (getting rid of info files, ...). This would
> also remove compatibility of those packages with OOo 2.4, but I don't think
> that's bad; we then have a stable release with OOo3 and new dicts anyway.
>
> As that might be too late depending on when 1 and 2 get finished this also
> can be done after squeeze...
Sorry for not being in Debconf and for not replying earlier.
I think I have somewhere some code for dictionaries-common-dev to make
things easier. I just have to look for it.
Having something like a --o2compat option in installdeb-myspell can be
useful. Default would initially be yes (so there is no need to
explicitly put it) and can be changed to no when needed (and only
explicitly enabled for backports).
I have been thinking about keeping something like the old myspell-info
format just to use it as a more complex files file, telling where to
install each file, and to generate some symlinks for openoffice use
(like es_AR -> es_ES for dicts), that were previously addressed from
the info file.
Will try to look at this when possible.
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