Ubuntu
language-support-en package

No spell check in en-au locale

Bug #58308 reported by Daniel Pittman
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language-support-en (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Undecided
Unassigned
language-support-writing-en (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: openoffice.org-writer

I recently had occasion to fire up the OpenOffice writer and create a document, and was surprised to find that the spell check is completely ineffective.

I have a stock 6.06 install of OpenOffice and have not gone out of my way to add or remove any localization settings from it.

I would have expected it to default to either the en-us or en-gb spell check system, both of which appear installed, or to have installed an en-au dictionary by default during the locale setup.

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lp:~hew/langpack-o-matic/adding-myspell-en-au
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Daniel Pittman (daniel-rimspace) wrote :

Darn. This has filed against the amd64 package, and the bug is against the i386 packages. Sorry. I tried to work out how to move this to the right package, but can't identify any mechanism to do so in Launchpad. Sorry.

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Matthias Klose (doko) wrote :

Martin, looks like we want myspell-en-au as another alternative / dependency in language-support-en

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DarkMageZ (darkmagez) wrote :

this looks to be more widespread than au... check out this dutch dude in bug #65318. this probably needs to be tested against every locale.

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Hew (hew) wrote :

I can confirm this issue. myspell-en-au should be a dependency of language-support-writing-en. I haven't marked this as a duplicate, but it's very similar to bug #28226 as fixing up the dependency mess properly would solve all these issues.

Changed in language-support-en:
status: New → Confirmed
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Hew (hew) wrote :

I have made a bazaar branch with the change (my first).

Changed in language-support-writing-en:
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Triaged
Changed in language-support-en:
status: Confirmed → Invalid
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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

Thanks! Merged langpack-o-matic branch, uploaded new l-s-writing-en.

Changed in language-support-writing-en:
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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skierpage (skierpage) wrote :

It looks like the fix for this bug causes bug 458742: It doesn't make sense for language-support-writing-en to depend on myspell-en-au (and myspell-en-au, myspell-en-gb, myspell-en-za, hunspell-en-ca, and wbritish), it means I can't remove English variants I don't want, They are *alternatives*, there should be | between sets of them.

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