Bug#822617: Missing symlinks to match locales
Hi Rene,
On 2016-05-01 15:44, Rene Engelhard wrote:
> How does this affect firefox, scribus, abiword and whoever else uses
> them?[1]
> ...
> [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=821772
I haven't tested with all those applications, but I did some tests with
Firefox and gedit. In general both of those work in a simplistic manner;
their spellcheck menus show everything in /usr/share/hunspell. One
exception: gedit doesn't show sr-Latn.{aff,dic} but it shows
sr_Latn_RS.{aff,dic} (with the label "Unknown (sr_Latn_RS)", but still).
It should be said that the use of symlinks corresponding to available
system locales isn't new, neither in Debian nor Ubuntu. You find them in
many other source packages which build hunspell-*, hyphen-*, etc. Also
the previous lo-dicts in Ubuntu, which was introduced in Ubuntu 14.04,
has such symlinks. So possible issues in other applications should have
been reported long ago.
One thing which *is* new in the latest lo-dicts is that it does not
provide stuff in /usr/share/myspell/dicts and
/usr/share/myspell/infos/ooo. Personally I'm not aware of any
application where it would make a difference. (OTOH I haven't researched
it.) I trust that you are reasonably sure that they aren't needed.
--
Gunnar Hjalmarsson
https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj
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