libsexy2 should depend on libenchant1c2a

[Guillaume Desmottes]

Libsexy uses libenchant for spellchecking.
The libsexy2 package should depend on libenchant1c2a.

[David Planella (dpm)]

A case where this is clearly obvious is xchat-gnome.

There is no dependency whatsoever on libenchant, not even as a suggested one. Yet xchat-gnome uses libenchant for spellchecking.

Result: going to Edit>Preferences>Spell Checking, the list languages for which spellchecking is available is empty.

In order to be able to perform spell-checking, the user has to know that xchat-gnome uses libenchant, which has to be installed manually at the moment. IMHO this should be handled automatically.

[Guillaume Desmottes (cassidy)]

Latest versions of xchat-gnome detect if libenchant is not installed and display a message:
"In order to get spell-checking, you need to have libenchant installed with at least one dictionary."

IMHO this message is not very intuitve for a basic user, so we can :
- Make libsexy depend on libenchant1c2a
- Patch xchat-gnome to explain that this package should be installed using synaptic.
- Patch xchat-gnome and use the futur https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/CommonInstallHook to offer the possibility to the user to easily install this package

[Guillaume Desmottes (cassidy)]

Another solution could be to set libenchant1c2a in the Recommends field of libsexy2 since it seems than recommended packages will be installed in Edgy.

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

I'd prefer it, if libsexy would just link against libenchant and wouldn't use that crazy dlopen thing. I don't like to depends/recommends/suggest on a library package name, but if somebody wants to upload the change, I won't veto.

[Riccardo Setti (giskard)]

hello,

Ehrr, i don't see the problem since libsexy2 has a Deps: on libenchant :)

+Package: libsexy2
+Architecture: any
+Section: libs
+Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, libenchant1c2a

taken form the ubuntu1.diff.gz

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Ok, then the bug is fixed already - thanks for following up.