Bug#898261: texmaker: Texmaker should use /usr/share/hunspell as default directory for dictionaries

[Philip Rinn]

Package: texmaker
Version: 5.0.2-2
Severity: minor
Tags: upstream

Hi,

some years ago someone suggested this in the Ubuntu bug tracker:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/texmaker/+bug/1042886

As texmaker depends on hunspell dictionaries it does not make much sense to set
the default directory for dictionaries to /usr/share/myspell/dicts.

As upstream introduced a specific way to set a different default directory for
Debian (by setting DEBIAN_SPELLDIR) the best approach would be to change this
upstream.

What are your thoughts?

Best,

Philip



-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (600, 'testing'), (550, 'unstable'), (450, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.16.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages texmaker depends on:
ii  libc6                             2.27-3
ii  libgcc1                           1:8.1.0-1
ii  libgl1                            1.0.0+git20180308-2
ii  libqt5concurrent5                 5.10.1+dfsg-5
ii  libqt5core5a [qtbase-abi-5-10-0]  5.10.1+dfsg-5
ii  libqt5gui5                        5.10.1+dfsg-5
ii  libqt5network5                    5.10.1+dfsg-5
ii  libqt5printsupport5               5.10.1+dfsg-5
ii  libqt5script5                     5.10.1+dfsg-2
ii  libqt5widgets5                    5.10.1+dfsg-5
ii  libqt5xml5                        5.10.1+dfsg-5
ii  libstdc++6                        8.1.0-1
ii  libsynctex2                       2018.20180416.47457-2
ii  texmaker-data                     5.0.2-2

Versions of packages texmaker recommends:
ii  aspell                                0.60.7~20110707-4+b1
pn  asymptote                             <none>
ii  ghostscript                           9.22~dfsg-2.1
ii  hunspell-de-ch [hunspell-dictionary]  20161207-4
ii  hunspell-de-de [hunspell-dictionary]  20161207-4
ii  hunspell-en-us [hunspell-dictionary]  1:2018.04.16-1
pn  latex-beamer                          <none>
ii  netpbm                                2:10.0-15.3+b2
ii  psutils                               1.17.dfsg-4
ii  texlive-lang-english                  2018.20180416-1
ii  texlive-latex-extra                   2018.20180416-1

Versions of packages texmaker suggests:
pn  texlive-lang-all  <none>

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