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

Mon Jan 9 13:05:37 CET 2012

W dniu 08.01.2012 20:01, Anssi Hannula pisze:
+Hello Anssi!
+> On 08.01.2012 16:19, Luc Menut wrote:
+>> 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.
+> Strong +1 from me for not using hardcoded Version 1.0, please instead
+> use the %upstream_release in Version.
+>
+> I don't see any reason to break the versioning policy here.
+Excuse me. I've added a note to the policy.
+We will keep the same versions of dictionaries like Fedora. Version 
+"1.0" is just for Esperanto.
+>> 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.
+> IMO a better way to handle this would be
+> Provides:	mozilla-dictionary
+> Provides:	hunspell-dictionary
+> Provides:	myspell-dictionary
+>
+> based on which directories are contained in the package, since other
+> packages are generally interested in whether the package provides
+> dictionaries in a specific location. (i.e. a package using dictionaries
+> in /usr/share/hunspell doesn't care if there are some extra dictionaries
+> provided in other directories).
+I like this idea!
+Luc what do you think? Maybe we can consider the providing 
+"mozilla-dictionary" and then even install symlinks into a specific 
+directory like /usr/share/mozilla-dictionary ?
+
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