Ubuntu
language-support-writing-en package

Cannot remove myspell-en-* separatelly

Bug #458742 reported by kolya
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
language-support-writing-en (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Wishlist
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: myspell-en-za

In programs like Firefox and Pidgin I see many English variants which I do not use. When I try to remove dictionary package like myspell-en-za apt suggest removing whole lang pack.

Expected result:
It should be possible to remove packages like myspell-en-za and myspell-en-au separately from lang pack.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
CheckboxSubmission: 2886daa57d710668a64d55092051c8da
CheckboxSystem: d00f84de8a555815fa1c4660280da308
Date: Fri Oct 23 00:01:57 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: myspell-en-za 1:3.0.1-8ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: openoffice.org-dictionaries
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686

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kolya (mar-kolya) wrote :
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Chris Cheney (ccheney) wrote :

Wrong package assignment, if this is considered a bug at all it is on language-support-writing-en.

affects: openoffice.org-dictionaries (Ubuntu) → language-support-writing-en (Ubuntu)
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kolya (mar-kolya) wrote :

It looks like a bug since these creates languages in spell check menus which people may never need and never use thus cluttering menus.

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gpothier (gpothier) wrote :

It is indeed annoying. I use three languages (spanish, english and french), and when I open the language selection menu in firefox it takes the entire screen height! Moreover the list is not sorted alphabetically. Here is the list I get:

Spanish/Mexico
Spanish/Bolivia
French/Belgium
English/United States
French
Spanish/Guatemala
English/United States
Spanish/Dominican Republic
Spanish/Honduras
Spanish/Uruguay
Spanish/Cuba
Spanish/Peru
Spanish/Nicaragua
Spanish/Puerto Rico
English/United Kingdom
Spanish/Colombia
English/United Kingdom
Spanish/Costa Rica
French/Canada
French/Monaco
Spanish/Chile
Spanish/Venezuela
French/France
English/Canada
Spanish/Spain
English/Australia
English/South Africa
Spanish/Ecuador
Spanish/Argentina
Spanish/Paraguay
Spanish/Ecuador
French/Luxembourg
English/Australia
Spanish
French/Switzerland
Spanish/Panama

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skierpage (skierpage) wrote :

I'm also affected by this bug in Kubuntu 10.04. I can't remove a bunch of packages that provide English spelling variants that I don't want: myspell-en-au, myspell-en-za, myspell-en-gb,hunspell-en-ca, and wbritish. If I try to remove the first, KPackageKit wants to remove language-support-writing-en and language-support-en!

Presumably the fix is to simply add some '|' symbols in some package description file for language-support-writing-en to indicate that only one of several alternatives is all that's needed, and/or add some Recommend lines for other English locales.

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Arne Goetje (arnegoetje) wrote :

No, the "|" symbol is not the proper fix, because then installing the meta package will only pull one of them, and we cannot guarantee which one.
I'm afraid with the current structure in our language support (by Language, not by variation) we don't have any other choice. I have some ideas already on how to change the structure of how languages are managed, but this will need to be fleshed out in a blueprint.

Changed in language-support-writing-en (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: New → Confirmed
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