Bug#822617: Missing symlinks to match locales
On Sun, May 01, 2016 at 08:48:11PM +0200, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:
> 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.
Probably, yes. I'd also bet scribus does it this way so we're probably
"safe".
> 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
Other packages do weird stuff. :) What other packages do is not always
a proper argument ;) There's even hunspell dictionaries etc
which are not even trying to follow policy. Like hunspell-* packages
also including the hyphen stuff. Or some which are still wrongly named.
I didn't want to use the RC bug hammer on them yet, maybe I should.
> 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.
I don't buy this argument completely.
I'd bet many of these are in "universe" and thus don't get real support I'd
bet.
But OK :)
> 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.
Nope, should be gone by now definitely and if there was one still relying
on this it's a bug which should be fixed in whatever application is using
this.
Regards,
Rene
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