On Sun, May 01, 2016 at 08:48:11PM +0200, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote: > I haven't tested with all those applications, but I did some tests with > > Firefox and gedit. In > general both of those work in a simplistic manner; > their spellcheck menus show everything in /usr/share/hunspell.
Probably, yes. I'd also bet scribus does it this way so we're probably "safe". > It should be said that the use of symlinks corresponding to available > system locales isn't new, neither in Debian nor Ubuntu. You find them in > many other source packages which build hunspell-*, hyphen-*, etc. Also Other packages do weird stuff. :) What other packages do is not always a proper argument ;) There's even hunspell dictionaries etc which are not even trying to follow policy. Like hunspell-* packages also including the hyphen stuff. Or some which are still wrongly named. I didn't want to use the RC bug hammer on them yet, maybe I should. > the previous lo-dicts in Ubuntu, which was introduced in Ubuntu 14.04, > has such symlinks. So possible issues in other applications should have > been reported long ago. I don't buy this argument completely. I'd bet many of these are in "universe" and thus don't get real support I'd bet. But OK :) > One thing which *is* new in the latest lo-dicts is that it does not > provide stuff in /usr/share/myspell/dicts and > /usr/share/myspell/infos/ooo. Personally I'm not aware of any > application where it would make a difference. (OTOH I haven't researched > it.) I trust that you are reasonably sure that they aren't needed. Nope, should be gone by now definitely and if there was one still relying on this it's a bug which should be fixed in whatever application is using this. Regards, Rene
