[Dict-common-dev] dictionary packaging

[Mike McWay]

thanks Agustin and Rene. sorry about the direct email, your names were at
the top of the debian guide. didnt know about the email list.

I did have the postinst and postrm files in the wrong place. I also added an
empty .aff file which appeased OpenOffice. i think i've got everything
working right now.

i was really just putting this into an Ubuntu
PPA<https://launchpad.net/%7Espanella/+archive>,
but if debian would be interested in a Medical dictionary upstream I'd be
happy to go through the appropriate channels.

Mike

On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 9:51 AM, Agustin Martin <agustin.martin at hispalinux.es
> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 10:51:22PM -0400, Mike McWay wrote:
> > Hi I'm trying to follow your
> > guide<http://dict-common.alioth.debian.org/dsdt-policy.html>to package
> > a hunspell
> > medical dictionary <http://www.e-medtools.com/Hunspel_openmedspel.html>
> for
> > Ubuntu but I'm a little new to packaging. I've got everything installing
> to
> > the right places, but I'm not getting the postinst and postrm scripts
> > running correctly. (i.e. adding line to dictionary.lst)
> >
> > should they be within ~/debian/?
> > also have mine as:
> >
> > #!/bin/sh
> > set -e
> > if [ "$1" = "configure" ]; then
> >     update-openoffice-dicts
> > fi
>
> If you are using debhelper, installdeb-myspell should take of creating the
> required debhelper snippets, which will be removed by dh_clean. No need to
> explicitly add the debhelper snippets.
>
> Otherwise you just need to put the required code in the postinst and
> postrm,
> as for any other package not using debhelper.
>
> > lastly, the dictionary is distributed as a single ".dic" file. Is the
> ".aff"
> > file neccessary?
> > OpenOffice seems to be crashing with this dictionary installed. I guess
> I'll
> > consult the authors about that.
>
> Looked at the .dic and, besides the leading word number, seems a plain
> wordlist.
>
> I guess you can try with an empty .aff file (such as one created with
> touch).
> I expect this to be enough.
>
> Replying to the dict-common-dev mailing list so there is more possible
> feedback. Please reply there so this thread gets archived and can be of
> help
> to others.
>
> --
> Agustin
>
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