Bug#560106: Spellchecker: Language entries are unsorted, some duplicated and there are too many entries.

[Mike Hommey]

On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 11:48:53PM +0100, Andrés Hamann wrote:
> Package: iceweasel
> Version: 3.5.5-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> 
> The languages list for the spelling is extremely long and has no order.
> I find myself using different languages and changing the writing
> language often, therefore I have the following dictionaries installed:
> myspell-ca, myspell-de-de, myspell-en-gb, myspell-en-us, myspell-es,
> myspell-fr.
> After last update, the "Languages" menu in iceweasel lists around 17
> "Spanish / " dictionaries (main annoyance), this might be a bug in
> myspell (please confirm if you agree) however iceweasel should also be
> able to handle this better.
> Also some of the entries are duplicated, having the list alphabetically
> ordered and without duplications would be a good start.
> 
> This bug is related to this bug:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=557539
> Which is marked as fixed in upstream:
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=528893
> 
> But that fix has no relation to the problem of duplication and lack of
> order.
(...)

The duplication issue should be solved when dictionnary packages are
rebuilt against the latest dictionnary-common package.

Agustin, do you know if that is planned?

Mike