Ubuntu
thunderbird package

Thunderbird needs change for dictionary transition

Bug #590452 reported by Chris Cheney
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
thunderbird (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
High
Micah Gersten
Ubuntu maverick-alpha-3

Bug Description

Binary package hint: thunderbird

Thunderbird in Ubuntu needs support for the dictionary transition that happened in Debian last year. I told several people about this issue on IRC and at UDS but it seems to have not been fixed yet and may have been forgotten so I am filing this bug now. I am not sure if Thunderbird has basis in any packaging in Debian but if so then a general merge of other fixes may be needed as well. I know Debian doesn't have a 'Thunderbird' package as such but does have an unbranded version.

The fix appears to be changing these lines:

rules: dh_link usr/share/myspell/dicts $(DEBIAN_TB_DIR)/dictionaries
thunderbird.postinst.in:SYS_DICTIONARY_DIR=/usr/share/myspell/dicts

to

rules: dh_link usr/share/hunspell $(DEBIAN_TB_DIR)/dictionaries
thunderbird.postinst.in:SYS_DICTIONARY_DIR=/usr/share/hunspell

It looks like it might need to check on upgrades and switch the symlink as well, but I am not certain.

Thanks,

Chris Cheney

Chris Cheney (ccheney)
Changed in thunderbird (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → High
milestone: none → maverick-alpha-2
status: New → Triaged
Revision history for this message
Micah Gersten (micahg) wrote :

Taking this.

Changed in thunderbird (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Micah Gersten (micahg)
milestone: maverick-alpha-2 → maverick-alpha-3
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package thunderbird - 3.0.6+build2+nobinonly-0ubuntu1

---------------
thunderbird (3.0.6+build2+nobinonly-0ubuntu1) maverick; urgency=low

  * New upstream release v3.0.6 (THUNDERBIRD_3_0_6_BUILD2)
    - see USN-958-1

  [ Chris Coulson <email address hidden> ]
  * Fix LP: #600217 - StartupWMClass value in thunderbird.desktop file is
    not correct
    - update debian/thunderbird.desktop

  [ Micah Gersten <email address hidden> ]
  * Fix LP: #590452 - Thunderbird needs change for dictionary transition;
    Use hunspell dictionaries for Maverick and later
    - update debian/rules
  * Fix LP: #569762 - Thunderbird's .desktop file does not contain russian
    translation; Thanks to Igor Zubarev for the translation
    - update debian/thunderbird.desktop
  * Fix LP: #563535 - thunderbird -g fails due to invoking "$LIBDIR/$META_NAME"
    instead of "$LIBDIR/$META_NAME"-bin
    - update debian/thunderbird.sh.in
  * Fix LP: #411691 - many Exception... "update.locale file doesn't exist" in
    console
    - update debian/rules
 -- Micah Gersten <email address hidden> Tue, 13 Jul 2010 08:59:50 -0500

Changed in thunderbird (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
Pedro Bezunartea López (pedro-bezunartea)
Changed in thunderbird (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Released → Fix Committed
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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