Hungarian spell-check is not supported

Bug #568760 reported by Nagy Ferenc László
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
openoffice.org-dictionaries (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
High
Chris Cheney

Bug Description

Binary package hint: language-selector

Hi! If I select support of Hungarian language in gnome-language-selector (making sure that spell-checking is checked) there won't be Hungarian spell-checking in programs like gedit and Empathy.

There is a package in universe called myspell-hu, which enables spell-checking in said programs, but this package is not installed by language selector. If it's already installed, language selector will remove it. Instead hunspell will be installed, which may be smarter than myspell, but evidently can't replace it.

IIRC Hungarian spell-checking worked in Karmic, so this is a regression.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: language-selector 0.5.7
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.32-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Apr 23 03:24:42 2010
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha amd64 (20100223.2)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=hu_HU.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: language-selector

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Nagy Ferenc László (nfl) wrote :
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Nagy Ferenc László (nfl) wrote :

I'm in Karmic now. Hungarian spell checking works in gedit. myspell-hu (from main) is installed. hunspell is not installed.

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Arne Goetje (arnegoetje) wrote :

ok, apparently what is missing in the hunspell-hu package is the links to /usr/share/myspell/dicts/.

Could you please try the following:
1. remove myspell-hu
2. install hunspell-hu
3. sudo ln -s /usr/share/hunspell/hu_HU.* /usr/share/myspell/dicts/

If this works, then the bug is in the openoffice.org-dictionaries source package.

Changed in language-selector (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
importance: Undecided → High
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Arne Goetje (arnegoetje) wrote :

Subscribed Ubuntu Hungarian Translators team, to get more input on this issue.

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Máté Őry (orymate) wrote :

Yes, sudo ln -s /usr/share/hunspell/hu_HU.* /usr/share/myspell/dicts/ solves the issue.

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Gabor Kelemen (kelemeng) wrote :

That worked for me too, after creating the links, Hungarian appeared in the list of languages in gedit and Empathy, and spellchecking started to work in Tomboy.

Changed in language-selector (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Confirmed
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Arne Goetje (arnegoetje) wrote :

reassigned to openoffice.org-dictionaries. Those links to /usr/share/myspell/dicts/ should always be provided.

affects: language-selector (Ubuntu) → openoffice.org-dictionaries (Ubuntu)
Changed in openoffice.org-dictionaries (Ubuntu):
milestone: none → ubuntu-10.04
status: Confirmed → Triaged
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Nagy Ferenc László (nfl) wrote :

Yes, issue is solved with the link. Thank you.

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Chris Cheney (ccheney) wrote :

Arne,

Did Ubuntu decide not to follow through with the dictionary policy transition? Rene seems to claim Sebastien didn't want to fix enchant which is why we are seeing this issue. I can fix this bug for the few dictionaries I know about that have already dropped the compat symlinks but I have a feeling all of them will be going away soon. I already got comments from some of the Ubuntu mozillateam guys wanting to drop them since it causes the dictionaries to show up double for them.

10:18 < _rene_> calc: any package in your uptodate release still relying on
                /usr/share/myspell/dicts is buggy
10:18 < _rene_> that includes enchant, but sebastien didn't want to fix it

Chris

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Chris Cheney (ccheney) wrote :

I want to add that there are several more dictionaries at least without the symlinks. The dictionary transition is already complete in Debian and they are planning on dropping all of the compat symlinks very soon.

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Chris Cheney (ccheney) wrote :

I talked to Sebastien and we will be updating enchant in Maverick so I will go ahead and fix this bug along with the other symlink issues I found in openoffice.org-dictionaries source package.

Changed in openoffice.org-dictionaries (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Chris Cheney (ccheney)
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package openoffice.org-dictionaries - 1:3.2.0~rc2-3ubuntu3

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openoffice.org-dictionaries (1:3.2.0~rc2-3ubuntu3) lucid; urgency=low

  * Add missing compat symlinks. Closes LP: #568760
 -- Chris Cheney <email address hidden> Fri, 23 Apr 2010 13:30:00 -0500

Changed in openoffice.org-dictionaries (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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