Comment 9 for bug 467278

On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 18:36 +0000, Chris Cheney wrote:
> The linkage was done because of bug:
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=536643
>
> which was filed by Eduard Grebe who originally filed this Ubuntu bug:
>
> https://launchpad.net/bugs/398320
>
> which is apparently now a duplicate of this bug report.
>
> The gist of the bugs is that before he said that the dictionary was
> broken and that linking in en_GB.aff in place of en_ZA.aff would fix it,
> now Walter is saying the fix is actually breaking the dictionary. If
> that was true then why didn't it work correctly originally before the
> supposed fix?
>
> So what is supposed to actually fix this?

Since the fix is upstream at OpenOffice.org, just using that code would
fix it... or

Using the dictionary from
http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/dict-en_ZA would also
fix this.

> I think I can do a SRU to fix this if we can come up with a solution
> that actually works for everyone.
>
> ** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #536643
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=536643
>

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