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-- tags 206113 +ITA thanks I intend to adopt freedict, which was recently orphaned. dict-freedict consists of 42 utf-8 encoded bi-lingual dictionaries. In the past dict-freedict has included pre-formatted dictionaries downloaded from www.freedict.de. However, these pre-formatted dictionaries do not work with modern versions of dictd. In the dict-* packages that I maintain, I have always formatted the dictionary as part of the build process. This presents a problem for the dict-freedict package, in that a xx_YY.utf-8 locale must be available on the build machine. AFAIK there is no way to guarantee that a specific locale is available on the buildds. It would be possible for debian/rules to generate a xx_YY.utf-8 locale, but this would require rules to run as root, which is not permissible by policy. The simplest approach would be to format the dictionaries on my machine, and include them in the source package. This would be similar to the previous dict-freedict packages. Would this be acceptable? Regards, Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Palm City, FL 34990 USA GPG Key ID: 390D6559