Requesting a freeze exception for hunspell-fr

[Francois Marier <francois@debian.org>]

(Please CC me on your replies, thanks!)

Hello again,

I would like to request a freeze exception for the hunspell-fr package (part
of openoffice.org-dictionaries).

It fixes the following bug:

  502654: French dictionary is not working for locales outside of France

The hunspell-fr package as it is only works for the fr_FR locale. This means
that French speakers in other locales (fr_BE, fr_CA, fr_CH and fr_LU) cannot
use the spellchecker at all in applications like OpenOffice.org, Pidgin or
Tomboy. (All words are underlined in red.)

This problem was initially reported here:

  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org-dictionaries/+bug/139570
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org-dictionaries/+bug/278943

The version in sid (2.4.0~m240-3) has the required fix for which the patch
is here:

  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=5;filename=hunspell-fr.diff;att=1;bug=502654

Francois