[Dict-common-dev] myspell support

[Agustin Martin Domingo]

Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> 
>>I made the assumption that the upstream aff and dic files are located at
>>the top dir.  We might introduce an option to allow overrideing of the
>>location of the files in the build tree.
> 

Hi, Rafael,

Thanks for your feedback, I still could not check your patch, so this is 
only a preliminary reply.

I would prefer not playing with the {dic,aff} installation as a default 
behavior but only if specifically requested, people might have some 
different setups and is not that hard to do the right 'install ...'. 
E.g. in spanish I have the .dic file that is generated in the top dir 
from the ispell munched wordlist at build time, and the aff file that is 
taken from es_ES.zip (I will probably generate it from ispell aff file 
via a script shortly) and is at the debian subdir. Other people might 
want to do some fine tuning of that files at build time without 
overwriting the original ones, so using different names before 
installation. Trying to deal with all this stuff as the default option 
does not look simple. It is however fine if it is done as an option that 
  will be useful for most dicts made directly from the xx_XX.zip file.

On the other hand, I find autogenerating symlinks desirable.

> 
> I tried to implement this with an option, like "--srcdir=some/dir", but it
> is not possible, since debhelper hijacks all the options when init() is run.
> 

I think it puts all parsed options into the %dh array (see, e.g., 
/usr/bin/dh_installinit code), but I took only a first look into it.

Cheers,

-- 
Agustin