Bug#549874: please point dictionaries/ to /usr/share/hunspell

[Mike Hommey]

On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 08:49:59AM +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 08:01:03AM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > But anyways, why don't we keep the old directory as a symlink to the new
> 
> Because the dir is still poplulated by files (well, symlinks) to ease
> partial upgrades. We can't jus throw them away right now unless wchange
> all dicts again...
> 
> And anyway, who should own  this symlink? dictionaries-common
> might have been a candidate, but it's far too late now (I'll now go throug
> the hassle of NMUing most dicts myself).
> 
> Why didn't you suggest that when the plan was outlined :)

I did.

> > one, so that it doesn't make backporting harder ?
> 
> That is a reason, but then again you can also make backports of this
> with the current thing (ifeqs in rules, debian/rules control target before the
> build, ..)

How exactly is this supposed not to be making backporting harder than
having nothing to do ?

Mike