[Debian-hebrew-package] Please fix your packages ;)

Mike Hommey mh at glandium.org
Mon Jan 25 17:53:29 UTC 2010


On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 06:45:11PM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 09:56:00AM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > # For the last 4 packages, please check bug #557604.
> > # For the other packages, only a "binNMU" is necessary.
> > # (except that real binNMUs are not supported on arch:all packages)
> 
> It's not at all clear to me what people are expected to do.
> 
> As I understand it, the following things need to happen after
> to get this fixed:
> 1) Old mozilla (xx-YY) symlinks removed.  We should only have
>    xx_YY symlinks.
> 2) Some thing that will change the sorting of languages.  I'm
>    not sure how that is going to happen.  (That's what the bug
>    that was cloned was about.)
> 
> What I think should not happen yet:
> 3) Remove the symlinks /usr/share/myspell/dicts.  Or can we
>    drop them now too?  And does that mean dropping the xx-YY
>    symlinks in there or not?
> 
> I understand that for some packages the only thing that needs
> to happen is just rebuilding it, but atleast the myspell-nl/dutch
> package is not in the list of the "4 last", and does require
> changes to not set up those symlinks.

Normally, dictionary-common-dev, which you depend on, creates the proper
symlinks, and the latest version doesn't create the xx-YY symlinks in
/usr/share/hunspell.

Mike



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