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
installdeb-myspell installs the necessary
scraps of code in the postinst and postrm scripts.
"Language
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
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
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
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
debhelper(1)
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
