A crude Debian package for the German hyphenation dictionaries. These are upstream hyphenation dictionaries from the Libreoffice dictionaries repo and the Apache OpenOffice extensions . They are used to generate more complete hyphenation dictionaries based on a hyphenation corpus in a database. This corpus is maintained using hyphen-keeper.
Unfortunately we do not use the latest upstream versions of the hyphenation dictionaries. They seem to cause problems with the version of libhyphen installed on the deployment server, crashing the entire JVM. So for now we simply use the ‘old’ hyphenation dictionaries from https://github.com/sbsdev/sbs-hyphenation-tables.
This package is built from an existing file tree along the lines of this guide.
Build the package simply by using make:
make
Install using the normal Debian package installation command:
dpkg -i hyphen-de-base_1.1-2_all.deb
The hyphenation dictionaries are licensed under LGPLv2.1+ and LGPLv2.0+. The Debian packaging is licensed under the GPLv3+.