Bug#929923: missing dictionaries.xcu confuses non-US English locales (e.g. en_AU)

[Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org>]

On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 03:44:36PM +1000, Trent W. Buck wrote:
> I still advocate solving only MY problem, with a simple change:
> 
>     https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?att=2;bug=929923;filename=929923.patch;msg=22

And I still say that it at least for en_GB is wrong. As said: color vs.
colour.
You say that Australia is used to both, Ok, I believe so - but I don't think so
for en_GB.

> However, I also considered a complex change:
> generate debian/*.links automatically from */dictionaries.xcu.
> 
> A proof-of-concept is attached.
> If this is interesting, I can look at merging it into debian/helper.py.
> If this is not interesting, I'm happy to just forget about it :-)

IMHO, this definitely sounds interesting. "In emergency" we can just remove
unwanted ones..

Regards,

Rene