Missing symbolic links for pt-br dictionary in /usr/share/myspell/dicts

[Vítor E. Silva Souza]

Binary package hint: myspell-pt-br

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu Natty (development branch)
Release: 11.04

$ apt-cache policy myspell-pt-br
myspell-pt-br:
  Installed: 20101030-1
  Candidate: 20101030-1
  Version table:
 *** 20101030-1 0
        500 http://it.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

en-us and it-it symbolic links exist in /usr/share/myspell/dicts. As a visible consequence, you can spell check in these languages in Firefox, for instance. Although myspell-pt-br is installed, there's no link for it in that same folder, so Firefox doesn't offer Brazilian Portuguese as a language for spell checking.

I added them as root pointing to the hunspell dictionaries:

$ ls -l /usr/share/myspell/dicts/pt*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 2011-04-14 16:04 /usr/share/myspell/dicts/pt_BR.aff -> ../../hunspell/pt_BR.aff
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 2011-04-14 16:04 /usr/share/myspell/dicts/pt_BR.dic -> ../../hunspell/pt_BR.dic

When I restarted Firefox, Brazilian Portuguese was now an option for spell checking.

On a side note, I wanted to as you: why are there two links for each language in /usr/share/myspell/dicts/? E.g. one is en-US (with dash) and the other is en_US (with underscore):

$ ls -l /usr/share/myspell/dicts/en*.aff
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 2011-04-13 13:41 /usr/share/myspell/dicts/en_US.aff -> ../../hunspell/en_US.aff
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 2011-04-13 13:41 /usr/share/myspell/dicts/en-US.aff -> ../../hunspell/en_US.aff

That makes Firefox recognize two different U.S. English dictionaries. Are both symlinks really necessary?

Thanks,
- Vítor

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: myspell-pt-br 20101030-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic-pae 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic-pae i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Apr 14 16:04:50 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta i386 (20110330)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: myspell-pt-br
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Hélio Nunes (dedalu-dedalu)]

I confirm: without the symbolic links Firefox does not show Portuguese dictionaries.

[Vítor E. Silva Souza (vitorsouza)]

Recently installed Ubuntu 11.10. The links for pt-BR dictionary are still not there, but Firefox does show Portuguese dictionaries now. Is it checking directly with hunspell now? Anyways, don't know if this makes the bug invalid...

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package myspell-pt-br - 20131030-3

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myspell-pt-br (20131030-3) unstable; urgency=low

  * Rebuild against sid dictionaries-common-dev 1.23.2 to properly clean
    dirs.
  * debian/rules: No longer ship symlinks to /var/lib/aspell.
  * Close old (LP: #760724), myspell symlinks are obsolete.
  * Close old (LP: #108899), BrOffice dictionary is used since 2007.04.11.

 -- Agustin Martin Domingo <email address hidden> Thu, 24 Apr 2014 11:15:07 +0200