[Bug 1510198] Re: [FFe] Sync (almost) with libreoffice-dictionaries in Debian sid

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

On 2016-03-02 11:32, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
> umh, actually I was talking about the migrating away from the
> myspell-* packages built by lo-dicts, I didn't check the list of
> those produced by ubuntu, but now I see there is a missing
> transitional package for myspell-en-us. I recall now that I wanted to
> move that to src:hunspell-en-us, but totally forgot to do.

I see.

In Ubuntu it's most important that hunspell-en-us is removed from the
blacklist and built, isn't it? A transitional myspell-en-us package
shouldn't be necessary in Ubuntu any longer (but wouldn't hurt).

> If we do that we would take over several binaries from other
> sources, that means that some of those sources may become pointless
> and just be removed from the archive (in ubuntu).

That's true. Some of the myspell-* packages, which would be overridden
this way, are quite old and poorly maintained. Assuming that the
dictionaries provided by lo-dicts are more up-to-date, it would be a
convenient way to get rid of them. Admittedly a bold way.

> That needs to be backed by somebody else, I can't really help here
> (it was a way longer term plan for me), and not sure we would do that
> in during FF.
> It would indeed be nice to kick all those other packages, though.

Letting hunspell-* packages co-exist in the archive with conflicting
myspell-* packages, as you now do in Debian, doesn't fit very well with
how language-selector pulls those packages. Without the transitional
packages, the users would be prompted to install hunspell-* packages
anyway. Of course, they have the option to not install them.

OTOH, maybe we could see this as a 'soft transition' away from old
myspell-* packages. Ubuntu users would be prompted to install
hunspell-*, and most would just accept. If there proves to be many users
who prefer a conflicting myspell-* package, for whatever reason, some of
them would find the language-selector prompting irritating, and let us
know.

Is that a reasonable way to look at it?

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Title:
  [FFe] Sync (almost) with libreoffice-dictionaries in Debian sid

Status in language-selector package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in libreoffice-dictionaries package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in openoffice.org-hyphenation package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Proposed uploads are available in this PPA:
  https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj/+archive/ubuntu/lo-dicts4

  This proposal gives us updated dictionaries in xenial, and quite a few
  new ones. libreoffice-dictionaries in Ubuntu was introduced before the
  release of trusty, but hasn't been maintained since. This proposal
  should make it possible to really sync with Debian after the xenial
  release.

  [Original description]
  libreoffice-dictionaries hasnt been synced from Debian for a while and has Ubuntu-local change. Rebase/Reimplement those on Debian and upstream those, if possible.

  (libreoffice-dictionaries was created rather ad-hoc around 4.2 before
  Debian did, replacing the old openoffice-dictionaries, thus the
  missing updates since).

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