Bug#690367: problem with wheezy fresh install

[Carsten Schoenert]

Hello Gevorg,

Am 28.03.2013 13:40, schrieb Gevorg Abrahamian:
> Carsten - Sorry don't know what you mean by top posting.

Top-Posting is one of the horrible things that come with the "practical" 
HTML Webmailers or by people that only knowing MS Outlook. But 
top-posting makes it hard to find the relevant info from reporters like 
you. :)

Here a short copy about top-posting and why don't to use it.
> A3: Please.
> Q3: Should I avoid top posting on mailing lists etc.?
>
> A2: Because, by reversing the order of a conversation, it leaves the
> reader without much context, and makes them read a message in an
> unnatural order.
> Q2: Why is top posting irritating?
>
> A1: It is the practice of putting your reply to a message before the
> quoted message, instead of after the (trimmed) message.
> Q1: What is top posting?

see also [1-3]

> I don't have
> icedove. But for me the issue is resolved since installing Wheezy
> RC1. I checked there are no l10n packages installed on my end.
> Perhaps they were being installed by default and are no longer
> installed by default. I cannot confirm regarding icedove.

Hmm, o.k. You don't use Icedove but Iceweasel, so you can't have the 
issue that reported by this bug in Icedove.
Some short explanation how the l10n package works. The l10n packages of 
Icedove provides own localization files. In detail it is just one file 
for each language -> language-[LANGUAGE]@thunderbird.mozilla.org.xpi.

> $ dpkg -L icedove-l10n-de | grep xpi
> /usr/share/icedove/extensions/langpack-de at thunderbird.mozilla.org.xpi
> /usr/lib/icedove/extensions/langpack-de at thunderbird.mozilla.org.xpi
> $ file /usr/lib/icedove/extensions/langpack-de at thunderbird.mozilla.org.xpi
> /usr/lib/icedove/extensions/langpack-de at thunderbird.mozilla.org.xpi: symbolic link to `../../../share/icedove/extensions/langpack-de at thunderbird.mozilla.org.xpi'
> $ file /usr/share/icedove/extensions/langpack-de at thunderbird.mozilla.org.xpi
> /usr/share/icedove/extensions/langpack-de at thunderbird.mozilla.org.xpi: Zip archive data, at least v1.0 to extract

That files ships all localizations for Icedove and only for Icedove. It 
contains all files in a zipped format that Icedove extract while 
starting. So the localization of Icedove (and Iceweasel as well) is 
completely independent from the hunspell package.

If there are problems with the spell checking functions of 
Icedove(/Iceweasel) then we have to look first if something inside the 
prefs.js is responsible for that problems because other user of Icedove 
would have the same problem with the spell checking in there language 
while the functions inside Icedove to use external spell packages are 
the same. The best way is to start with a fresh empty profile to 
eliminate errors provoked by a corrupted prefs.js.

O.k. as you say you have no (more) problems with this spell checking 
functions on Icedove we have to ask Arthur and John if they have any 
problems with this on Icedove.
If not I will reassign this bug to Iceweasel.


[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Top-posting
[2] 
http://illuminated.co.uk/blog/2003/12/top-posting-vs-bottom-posting---or---microsoft-outlook-vs-the-right-thingtm.html
[3] http://mailformat.dan.info/quoting/top-posting.html

-- 
Regards
Carsten