Bug#821269: Incompatibility between task-german-desktop and firefox-esr-l10n-de

[Hartmut Buhrmester]

hunspell is the preferred spellchecker for many European languages, 
because it handles accents and umlauts better than myspell. The 
task-german-desktop recommends the dictionaries hunspell-de-de, 
hunspell-de-at and hunspell-de-ch.

hunspell is also used by LibreOffice, and the package firefox-esr 
notably depends on libhunspell-1.3-0.

But whenever I install the German localization firefox-esr-l10n-de, it 
wants to remove all hunspell dictionaries and install the corresponding 
myspell dictionaries instead. This would actually be a regression.

In aptitude, I always have to cancel the removal and leave the 
dependencies of the package firefox-esr-l10n-de "unresolved". Of cause, 
the dictionaries are only recommended; but aptitude and apt-file are 
usually set to install all recommendations.

So it would be a much better choice, if the package firefox-esr-l10n-de 
would recommend the hunspell dictionaries hunspell-de-de, 
hunspell-de-at, and hunspell-de-ch instead, just like task-german-desktop.


Referenced packages:

firefox-esr           45.4.0esr-1~deb8u2
firefox-esr-l10n-de   45.4.0esr-1~deb8u2

-- 
Hartmut Buhrmester