Re: Swedish myspell packages

[Hans Öfverbeck <hans.ofverbeck@home.se>]

Chris Halls wrote:

> On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 22:57, Hans Öfverbeck wrote:
>  
>
> > I have made deb's of the Swedish myspell package (spell check and
> > hyphenation, no thesaurus) from http://sv.speling.org/files/
> > The files can be found at
> > http://www.maths.lth.se/matematiklu/personal/hans/debian/
> > The debianization is more or less copied from the
> > openoffice.org-dictionaries source package.
> > I have tested the packages together with OOo 1.1.0-2 and it works
> > fine. Together with mozilla 1.5-3 the spell checking works, but
> > "Swedish" isn't an option in the dialog, you'll have to choose sv_SE
> > or sv-SE.
> > I would appreciate if someone would like to sponsor the packages so
> > that they can make their way into debian eventually.
> >    
>
> Sure, thanks for making the packages.  I have a few points:
>
> 1. Please file an ITP for your packages as documented in [1]
>
>  
Done.

> 2. We were asked by the ftpmasters not to create such small hyphenation 
>   packages alone [2].  How about creating a single package that 
>   includes both the dictionary and hyphenation, calling it 
>   myspell-sv-se and in addition,
>   Provides: openoffice.org-hyphenation-sv, openoffice.org-hyphenation?
>
>  
Shouldn't it provide: openoffice.org-hyphenation-sv-se aswell ?

> 3. I guess this was to make the dictionary work with Mozilla?
>
>  myspell-sv-1.3.8-6/debian$ cat myspell-sv-se.links
>  /usr/share/myspell/dicts/sv_SE.aff /usr/share/myspell/dicts/sv-SE.aff
>  /usr/share/myspell/dicts/sv_SE.dic /usr/share/myspell/dicts/sv-SE.dic
>
>  
No, this was because the dsdt-policy draft says so: 
http://dict-common.alioth.debian.org/dsdt-policy.html#installdir

>   OOo does not need you to call the dictionary sv_SE.dic - I suggest you 
>   install it with the filename that Mozilla requires and change 
>   myspell-sv-se.dictlistinfo to read 'DICT sv SE sv-SE'.  That way you do 
>   not need the links.
>
>  
What I tried to describe earlier is that it doesn't work correctly with 
mozilla even with these symlinks, contrary to what 
http://spellchecker.mozdev.org/installation.html#dictionaries lead me to 
believe. If I make symlinks

/usr/share/myspell/dicts/sv.aff
/usr/share/myspell/dicts/sv.dic

then "Swedish" becomes an option in the spellcheck dialog, this could however conflict with a Finno-Swedish package.
I'm not sure if the differences between sv_SE and sv_FI are large enough to justify two different packages, so maybe there is no real risc for conflict. The fact that mozilla understands "sv" but not "sv_SE" can perhaps be taken as an indication that the mozilla developers consider the difference small.

Regards,
Hans



> Thanks,
> Chris
>
> [1] http://www.de.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ch-pkgs.en.html#s-newpackage
> [2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-openoffice/2003/debian-openoffice-200310/msg00388.html
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