[Parl-devel] Bug#910651: Bug#910651: parl-desktop-eu, parl-desktop-world: Please consider alternative dependency on myspell-es or hunspell-es

Agustin Martin agmartin at debian.org
Wed Oct 10 10:16:57 BST 2018


On Tue, Oct 09, 2018 at 12:43:34PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> Control: tag -1 wontfix
> 
> Quoting Agustin Martin (2018-10-09 12:18:23)
> > Both parl-desktop-eu and parl-desktop-world currently depend on 
> > myspell-es, but hunspell-es is also available.
> > 
> > Please consider changing the dependency to something like
> > 
> > hunspell-es | myspell-es
> > 
> > or the reverse 'or' if you prefer that.
> > 
> > They are different dictionaries, myspell-es is the older dictionary 
> > which has not seen new versions for some time. hunspell-es is a 
> > different dictionary using a more open development model. I do not 
> > want to force users to use one of them, so I still keep myspell-es in 
> > the archive. However, parl-desktop-* should allow using any of them.
> 
> Thanks for the suggestion, and for elaborating on the difference between 
> these disctionaries in particular.
> 
> I reject this, however:
> 
> parl-desktop-eu and parl-desktop-world are deliberately inflexible, so 
> as to ensure that anyone installing them have same working environment.

Hi Jonas,

No problem. myspell-es is still the most used. I would expect that with
changes in dependencies hunspell-es will slowly increase its share, but that
should be a slow process.

Feel free to close this bug report if you find that convenient.

Regards,

-- 
Agustin



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