Bug#1020387: dictionaries-common: Consensus regarding the packaging of the Qt WebEngine hunspell binary dictionaries

[Andres Salomon]

On Mon, Dec 26 2022 at 10:32:20 AM -0700, Soren Stoutner 
<soren at stoutner.com> wrote:
> Dmitry
> 
> 
> It hasn’t been discussed, but I think it would make sense for 
> Chromium to ship the convert_dict tool as it is the upstream for the 
> project.  I suppose the reason why the discussion was around how it 
> is shipped in the Qt packages was because that is the only place it 
> is currently shipped in Debian:
> 
> 
> <https://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=contents&keywords=convert_dict&mode=path&suite=testing&arch=any>
> 
> 
> Andres, do you have an comments on the feasibility of shipping 
> convert_dict as part of a Chromium package targeted at developers?
> 
> 


It's definitely feasible*. However, there's the question of whether we 
want other important packages depending on chromium. 
https://bugs.debian.org/1004441 shows that it's still an outstanding 
question whether chromium will even ship in bookworm. I now have Tim 
helping with packaging, which is wonderful and a huge help (thanks 
Tim!), but he doesn't have upload privs. If I were to get hit by a bus 
(or more likely, hit by 😱Responsibilities😱), he'd have to find 
someone else to sponsor his upload. Without his help, I'm not sure I'd 
want commit to the next 3 years of security support. So the question of 
other packages build-depending on convert_dict from chromium will 
involve the release team and what we decide to do for bookworm.


 * for my own future reference:  ninja -j$(njobs) -C out/Release  
convert_dict;  install ./out/Release/convert_dict

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