NAME

installdeb-myspell - debhelper-like helper for Debian packages containing myspell/hunspell dictionaries or Openoffice.org thesauri/hyphenation files.

SYNOPSIS

 installdeb-myspell [--srcdir=dir] [--dico-debug] [debhelper options]

DESCRIPTION

installdeb-myspell is a debhelper like program to help installing myspell/hunspell dicts as well as Openoffice.org thesauri or hyphenation files, after contents of an info-myspell file whose format is that for old Openoffice.org 2. This needs the --srcdir option enabled.

Note that unless --srcdir option this program will do nothing.

For more details, see
/usr/share/doc/dictionaries-common/dsdt-policy.txt.

The actions executed by installdeb-myspell are the following (only some of them are done if not in o2 compatibility mode):

Maintainer Scripts

installdeb-myspell installs the necessary scraps of code in the postinst and postrm scripts.

Language info file

installdeb-myspell will look for a file named debian/info-myspell or debian/package.info-myspell. That file contains myspell/hunspell dictionary, OOO thesauri or hyphenation information with lines like

TYPE LANG COUNTRY NAME

A typical info-myspell file for a myspell/hunspell dictionary will contain something like

 # Spanish variants
 DICT es ES es_ES
 DICT es AR es_ES
 ...
    

while will, for a typical hyphenation file, be something like

 # Danish hyphenation
 HYPH da DK hyph_da_DK
    

or for a sample thesaurus,

 THES en US th_en_US
    

all with no leading whitespace. Commented lines are allowed.

Dictionary, thesaurus and hyphenation files installation

If the --srcdir=dir option is set installdeb-myspell will look for the .aff/.dic files in the directory specified by dir and install them in the default target directory ([tmpdir]/usr/share/hunspell). Base name will be extracted from the info-myspell file (last string in the line). If target dict uses the ancient Mozilla hyphen form, it will be renamed to the lowbar form on installation. Same (but the renaming) for hyphenation and thesaurus files, to be installed in [tmpdir]/usr/share/hyphen and [tmpdir]/usr/share/mythes.

Dictionaries alternative symlinks creation

installdeb-myspell will, according to info extracted from the info-myspell, automatically set lang_COUNTRY symlinks to the dict files installed by installdeb-myspell. This will only be done when the --srcdir option is used.

If --srcdir option is used and the info-myspell file contains something like

 # Spanish variants
 DICT es ES es
 DICT es AR es
 ...
    

installdeb-myspell will automatically set es_ES and es_AR symlinks

Mozilla spellchecker compatibility

For myspell/hunspell dictionaries, Mozilla had a lang{,-COUNTRY} to names translation table using hyphens as separators (and for some languages not using country part at all) instead of lowbars.

Shortly, that will no longer be the case. Mozilla will also accept lang_COUNTRY format for that translation table, no special things will be needed. In particular, do not duplicate entries in both lowbar and hyphen forms. Use lowbar.

Debconf files

As opposed to installdeb-ispell and installdeb-wordlist, installdeb-myspell does nothing related to debconf files, not needed for myspell/hunspell dicts and OOO thesauri and hyphenation files. If you need to add debconf stuff with debhelper proceed in the usual way and call dh_installdebconf(1) as for any other package.

OPTIONS

--dico-debug Show some installdeb-myspell specific debugging info.
Does not enable debhelper debug, you need to enable
it separately.

--srcdir=dir Will look for .aff/.dic files in the specified directory
for myspell/hunspell dict packages, for .dic files in
Openoffice.org hyphenation packages and for .dat/.idx
files in Openoffice.org thesaurus packages, installing
them if present in the default target directory. Base
name will be extracted from the info-myspell file. If
this option is specified and files are not present an
error will appear.

--dico-{no-}alt-links {Process/Do not process} alternative symlinks
according to info found in the myspell info file.

The usual debhelper(7) options are accepted.

NOTES

This program is not part of debhelper, although depends on and is intended to work together with it.

SEE ALSO

debhelper(7)

This program is part of the dictionaries-common-dev package. It is intended for use by maintainers of packages containing myspell/hunspell dictionaries or Openoffice.org thesauri/hyphenation files. See the documentation under /usr/share/doc/dictionaries-common-dev.

AUTHORS

Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@debian.org>, Agustin Martin <agmartin@debian.org>