installdeb-myspell(1)
NAME
installdeb-myspell - debhelper-like utility for maintainers of
Openoffice.org myspell dictionary Debian packages
SYNOPSIS
installdeb-myspell [--srcdir=dir] [debhelper options]
DESCRIPTION
installdeb-myspell is a debhelper like program that is responsible for
installing appropriate debhelper snippets in an myspell dictionary
package for use under Openoffice.org, according to the Debian Spell
Dictionaries and Tools Policy.
I will also install Openoffice.org hyphenation or thesaurus files if so
requested when used from a Openoffice.org hyphenation or thesaurus
package and add appropriate debhelper snippets so they are added to the
dictionary.lst file.
- For more details, see
- /usr/share/doc/dictionaries-common/dsdt-policy.txt.
- The actions executed by installdeb-myspell are the following:
- Maintainer Scripts
- installdeb-myspell installs the necessary scraps of code in the postinst and postrm scripts.
- Language info file
- installdeb-myspell will look for a file containing myspell dictionary information, called debian/info-myspell or debian/package.info-myspell. If this file is successfully parsed, it is installed in the [tmpdir]/usr/share/myspell/infos/ooo directory.
- A typical info-myspell file for a myspell dictionary will contain
something like (all variants must refer to the same dict)
# Spanish variants
DICT es ES es_ES
DICT es AR es_ES
... - while will, for a typical hyphenation file, be something like
# Danish hyphenation
HYPH da DK hyph_da_DK - or for a sample thesaurus,
THES en US th_en_US - all with no leading whitespaces.
- Mozilla spellchecker compatibility
- installdeb-myspell will set appropriate symlinks in destination
directory for mozilla spellchecker compatibility unless
debian/$package.links exists. If so, symlink creation is expected
to be handled through debhelper. This will be needed for some
languages (like eo) where mozilla expects the plain isolang code
instead of the lang-COUNTRY one. - Dictionary files installation
- If the --srcdir=dir option is set installdeb-myspell will look for
the .aff/.dic files in the directory specified by dir and install
them in the default target directory
([tmpdir]/usr/share/myspell/dicts). Base name will be extracted from the info-myspell file. Same for hyphenation and thesaurus files. - Debconf files
- As opposed to installdeb-ispell and installdeb-wordlist,
installdeb-myspell does nothing related to debconf files, that are
not needed for myspell. For that reason if you need to add debconf
stuff with debhelper to your myspell dictionary package do it in
the usual way and call dh_installdebconf(1) as for any other package.
OPTIONS
- --srcdir=dir Will look for .aff/.dic files in the specified directory
- for myspell dict packages, for .dat files in
Openoffice.org hyphenation packages and for {.dat,.idx}
files in Openoffice.org thesaurus packages, installing
them if present in the default target directory. Base
name will be extracted from the info-myspell file. If
this option is specified and files are not present an
error will appear. - The usual debhelper(1) options are accepted.
NOTES
This program is not part of debhelper, although it is intended to be
used in Openoffice.org myspell dictionary packages using debhelper in
its building.
SEE ALSO
This program is part of the dictionaries-common-dev package. It is
intended to be used by maintainers of Openoffice.org myspell
dictionaries. See the documentation under
/usr/share/doc/dictionaries-common-dev.
AUTHORS
- Rafael Laboissiere