[Mageia-dev] [Mageia-Private] Consolidation of the spelling tools in Mageia

Sun Jan 8 15:19:15 CET 2012

Hello,
+
+first, sorry to reply so late, and when you have started to update 
+hunspell dictionaries packages.
+
+Le 21/12/2011 08:15, Kamil Rytarowski a écrit :
+> Hello!
+[...]
+>
+> There was a discuss on
+> 1) preparing policies on hunspell-dictionaries
+> 2) deprecate and kill myspell in Mga2
+> 3) changing the default path of dictionaries, from /usr/share/myspell to
+> /usr/share/hunspell (and to keep backward compatibility links in myspell
+> directory)
+> 4) to provide "enchant-dictionary" and "hunspell-dictionary" by every
+> hunspell-dictionary
+>
+> So finally, I've prepared a first version of the policy
+> https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Hunspell-dictionary_policy
+> If you like, please tell me your comments of it. Is it right? (Also: is
+> the .spec correct?) When everything will be accepted then every
+> hunspell-dictionary will be updated according to the policy.
+
+some comments about the policy:
+
+Version:        1.0
+Release:        %mkrel %{upstream_release}.%{rel}
+
+I don't think it will be possible to use Version 1.0 and upstream 
+version only in the release; most hunspell dictionaries already use 
+upstream version as version and have a version > 1.0.
+
+--
+
+#Mageia values: 1 - aspell, 2 - hunspell, 3 - language specific
+Provides:       enchant-dictionary = 2
+Provides:       hunspell-dictionary
+Provides:       dictionary-%{languagecode}
+
+about the version value of the provides: is the meaning (1 - aspell, 2 - 
+hunspell, 3 - language specific) really needed? is it currently used?
+Because I think that it could be usefull that the versionned provides 
+indicates the location of the dictionary:
+- current enchant-dictionary = 2 ->> /usr/share/dict/mozilla
+- enchant-dictionary from hunspell ->> enchant-dictionary = 4 ->> 
+/usr/share/hunspell and /usr/share/myspell,
+- enchant-dictionary from future hunspell without compatibility link in 
+/usr/share/myspell ->> enchant-dictionary = 5 ->> /usr/share/hunspell only,
+- ...
+
+(it seems weird for me to use the same "enchant-dictionary = 2" 
+versionned provide, both for "deprecated" myspell dictionaries, and new 
+hunspell dictionaries.)
+
+if the versionned provides indicates the location, we can use it if 
+necessary in Conflicts or Requires in others packages.
+e.g. currently Firefox searches dictionnaries in /usr/share/dict/mozilla 
+(myspell dictionaries). when we change this location, we could add a 
+Requires enchant-dictionary = 4.
+
+same for hunspell-dictionary and dictionary-%{languagecode}, a 
+versionned provides could indicate the location of the dictionary.
+if we want to be able to remove easily all the compatibility link in the 
+future, we should really consider this.
+
+
+>
+> PS. The changes of enchant will be proposed or accepted later, Funda has
+> already prepared the package.
+
+new hunspell dictionaries provides enchant-dictionary and obsoletes 
+myspell dictionaries, but enchant still can't use the new hunspell 
+dictionaries. I think that it should be fixed ASAP, or we will release 
+an alpha 3 with broken spelling for lot of languages.
+I propose the attached patches for enchant, so that enchant can use 
+dictionaries from /usr/share/hunspell, /usr/share/myspell, and 
+/usr/share/dict/ooo.
+Anssi, Kamil, WDYT ?
+
+same problem with firefox and thunderbird, they use dictionaries from 
+/usr/share/dict/mozilla = myspell dictionaries, that are obsoleted.
+(Will we wait for the complete migration, to release alpha 3 ? )
+
+CC: Anssi, enchant and thunderbird maintainer
+     dmorgan, firefox maintainer
+
+
+regards,
+Luc
+
+-- 
+Luc Menut
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