On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 01:18:46PM +0100, Agustin Martin wrote:
> retitle 557604 dictionaries-common: o2compat should no longer be the default
> in installdeb-myspell.
> severity 557604 normal
> thanks
>
> On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 09:04:20AM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > Package: dictionaries-common
> > Version: 1.3.2
> > Severity: important
> > Tags: patch
> >
> > We are going to fix the spellchecker issue in Mozilla that "required"
> > these symlinks, so please remove these symlinks.
>
> Thanks for the reminder,
>
> The planned way is to preserve the possibility of backwards compatibility
> until squeeze is released, but as soon as all apps use the new location,
> make "new-locations only" the default behavior (current behavior is keep
> backward compatibility symlinks).
>
> Note that dictionaries are already installed in the new location, so Mozilla
> transition can proceed. Current /usr/share/myspell/dicts/ contents are only
> backwards compatibility symlinks to the new /usr/share/{hunspell,...}
> locations. If some dictionary is still installed only in the old location,
> is a bug in the dictionary.
(...)
All that is totally unclear, and my bug report may not be clear itself.
My concern is about the xx-XX -> xx_XX symlinks. I don't know where they
come from, but here is the 2 problems we have with them:
- the xx-XX form is currently the only one recognized by mozilla to
translate the language code into a user readable language name.
the xx_XX form is still recognized, but doesn't display a user
readable name. This is what is going to be fixed soon.
- Both the xx-XX and the xx_XX form are currently recognized.
Currently, this means that there are 2 entries for each dictionary,
one in the xx_XX form, and one with a user readable form.
With the fix for the first issue, both will use the user readable
form.
As it seems these xx-XX symlinks are only used by mozilla, please just
remove them now. We can pretty much live without them for a while. That
will only mean the user-friendly name won't be shown in unfixed
applications, which is not something that should need to bother with a
transition plan, especially considering the dictionary location itself
is changing too.
Mike
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