On 2025-10-02 at 07:04, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Oct 02, 2025 at 08:40:19 +0000, Ceppo wrote: > >> On Thu, Oct 02, 2025 at 08:51:12AM +0930, Christian Gelinek wrote: >> >>> I'm using Debian 12 XFCE and when I first open LibreOffice >>> Writer, it shows the following message: >>> >>> Missing hyphenation data - Please install the hyphenation package >>> for locale "en-AU". >>> >>> Which package am I missing? Is it LibreOffice-specific or a >>> Debian package? >> >> You need hyphen-en-au. >> This is because hyphenation data is distributed in standalone packages, >> split by language and named hyphen-[language-code]. > > On Trixie, there isn't any such package: > > hobbit:~$ apt-cache search libreoffice hyphen-en > hyphen-en-us - English (US) hyphenation patterns > hyphen-en-gb - English (GB) hyphenation patterns > hobbit:~$ apt-cache show hyphen-en-au > N: Can't select versions from package 'hyphen-en-au' as it is purely virtual > N: No packages found > > Looking at <https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=hyphen-en-au> > also says there's no such package, and hasn't ever been one in recent > years. However: $ apt-cache show hyphen-en-gb | grep en-au Provides: hyphen-en-au, hyphen-en-za, hyphen-hyphenation-patterns, hyphen-hyphenation-patterns-en-gb IOW, hyphen-en-au is shipped as part of the hyphen-en-gb package, and may even be functionally identical to what one would normally expect to see from that package by its name. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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