[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#1020473: hunspell-en-med: Package the Qt WebEngine binary dictionary files from your Hunspell source
Soren Stoutner
soren at stoutner.com
Thu Sep 22 01:29:09 BST 2022
Source: hunspell-en-med
Version: 0.0.20140410-4
Severity: wishlist
Qt WebEngine has the ability to use Hunspell dictionaries for spell checking,
but they require that the dictionary files be converted to a special binary
format (.bdic). This conversion can be done using qwebengine_convert_dict from
the qtwebengine5-dev-tools package. The upstream documentation regarding this
is found on Qt's website:
https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtwebengine-features.html#spellchecker
Once these libraries are available they can be used by any program that includes
Qt WebEngine.
There is desire to package these libraries in Debian, which is fairly easy to do
from your source package with a few minor modifications. However, it is first
necessary to determine the best way to handle the binary packages and which
directory to store the files in. There is a meta-bug that has been filed
against dictionaries-common for the purpose of developing a consensus as to the
best way to do this:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1020387
If you have any input on this subject it would be appreciated.
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