We just had another package that likes and wants more symlinks, and I'm going to approve that and add more symlinks. I don't think removing them is the way to go atm, rather firefox and thunderbird could do something to deduplicate them (but it needs to be clever, as not necessarily all en_* (or whatever) are the same).
** Changed in: libreoffice-dictionaries (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Won't Fix -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/651586 Title: Mozilla Thunderbird and Firefox spellcheck has too many languages Status in firefox package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in language-selector package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in libreoffice package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in libreoffice-dictionaries package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix Status in thunderbird package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Binary package hint: thunderbird Mozilla Thunderbird and Firefox spellcheck has too many languages. It does not follow the Ubuntu Language Support Standard (gnome-language- selector). Language Support (gnome-language-selector) has a feature which allows you to gray out languages you are not interested in seeing and black in the languages you would like to see. Mozilla apps should follow this or should at least offer a workaround allowing a user to disable certain languages. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04 Package: thunderbird 3.0.8+build2+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-25.44-generic 2.6.32.21+drm33.7 Uname: Linux 2.6.32-25-generic i686 Architecture: i386 Date: Wed Sep 29 17:49:00 2010 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Release Candidate i386 (20100419.1) ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_US:en_CA:en LANG=en_US.utf8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: thunderbird To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/651586/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp