Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > On Tue, Jun 04, 2019 at 07:13:37AM +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote: > > > c. make some crappy symlinks th_en_XX_v2.dic -> th_en_US_v2.dic. > > > This works for me. > > > > > > The downside is that debian/*.links and > > > dictionaries/*/dictionaries.xcu can get out of sync. > > > > > > > > > UPDATE: I just noticed you are already doing (c) for other languages, e.g. > > > > > > > > > https://sources.debian.org/src/libreoffice-dictionaries/1:6.2.0-1/debian/mythes-es.links/ > > > > > > So, I am simply proposing to do the same for English. > > > > Yeah, one can do that... > > We could do that, but then: > 1. the package name would kinda lie, since it's -en-*us*
I agree. My patch mentioned that as a FIXME comment. This would also bring mythes-en* in line with the other mythes-* languages created by the same source package (libreoffice-dictionaries). The only reason I didn't do that already, is it's a more invasive change, and requires more thinking. > 2. we would need to Conflicts against mythes-en-au (maybe Provides that > as well, in this case, though) My patch did that already. > I wonder: why is -au outdated? If the upstream of mythes-en-au is gone, > maybe LO itself could pick it up? Note that the upstream of mythes-en-au was pre-Oracle openoffice.org. The source comments indicated mythes-en-au was created by copying th_en_US_v2.dat to th_en_AU_v2.dat, then deleting a small number of Americanisms. I assume that means things like "pavement". I haven't looked at the changes to th_en_US_v2.dat since 2011; I assume there have been some. I can dig out the contemporary th_en_US_v2.dat from snapshots.debian.org, and do a three-way diff between it, mythes-en-au, and current (LO6.3) mythes-en-us. That will show quantitatively how different they are. > It feels kind of weird to link -au to -us, as afaik there are effective > differences between the two. This is what LO does on non-Debian platforms. To me, that's a pretty compelling argument. Also note that on Debian currently, en_GB &c have *no* options for a thesaurus in apt. (Users with internet access can probably download the identical th_en_US_v2.dat bundled as an oxt, into $HOME, via LibreOffice's built-in downloader. My users are in gaol, so I haven't tested that.)
