Re: Requesting a freeze exception for hunspell-fr

[Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>]

* Francois Marier [Mon, 20 Oct 2008 11:56:30 +1300]:

> (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

Unblocked.

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