[Debian-arabic-packages] Bug#638728: Bug#638728: debsums reports that some aspell-fa files have changed

[Agustin Martin]

tag 638728 + patch
thanks

On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 11:57:59AM +0200, Francois Gouget wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> I don't know if it can help for aspell-ar-large or aspell-fa, but the 
> same bug has just been fixed in aspell-bg and aspell-uk. So just in case 
> these point to a solution to fix this, here are the relevant bugs and 
> changelog snippets:
> 
> aspell-bg:
>    * do not ship empty files overwritten by dictionaries-common
>      Closes: #638726: debsums reports that some aspell-bg files have changed
>      Thanks to Francois Gouget for reporting.
> 
> aspell-uk:
>    * Raise {build-,}dependency on dictionaries-common{-dev,} to 1.11.2~.
>    * Use auto-compat option for aspell-uk and do not create empty files
>      (closes: #638740)

Hi,

While working around this debsums message was once handled by not
shipping md5sums for relevant files under /var (debsums should not complain
that loud about originally empty files under /var, they are placeholders), 
dictionaries-common stuff now supports a different way to handle this, 
creating/updating compat during package preinst and removing compat and 
rws on package removal. This has the advantage that dictionary is no longer
unavailable between unpack and configuration unless a (very rare) binary
format change happens.

I am attaching a proposed patch to use this system, see comments for details.
It seemed to work well here, but real test should be done by someone really
using the dict.

Regards,

-- 
Agustin
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