[ long time no progress on this bug, let's revive it ]

Hi,

On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 02:32:10PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> I had the OOo conflict in the initial upload of this package, and it
> was rejected by the ftpmasters with this comment from Thomas Viehmann:
> 
> > from your changelog:
> > * Conflicts with openoffice.org-core (<< 1:2.4) to document that the
> >     required language code (se) was added to OOo in version 2.4.
> > this is not a good idea. Policy:
> > A Conflicts entry should almost never have an "earlier than" version
> > clause. This would prevent dpkg from upgrading or installing the
> > package which declared such a conflict until the upgrade or removal
> > of the conflicted-with package had been completed.
> 
> To solve this issue and get the package included into Debian, I
> removed the conflict.  An additional argument for removing it is that

Hrmpf. Ah, well, what about Breaks: then?

> the command line hunspell interface work even if the dictionary do not
> work with OOo or ice*, and it should be possible to install it on a
> system to use the command line tool even if it will not work with the
> GUI tools.  One example of such usage is as the backend for the d-i
> translation checking done on Alioth.  It would be good to be able to
> install the dictionary on alioth without having to upgrade OOo and
> ice* related tools on Alioth.

And alioth is etch? I think alioth by now is lenny (which has OOo 2.4)
and (probably) the ice*s, too

Grüße/Regards,

Rene



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