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

[Timothy Pearson]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andres Salomon" <dilinger at queued.net>
> To: "Soren Stoutner" <soren at stoutner.com>
> Cc: 1020387 at bugs.debian.org, "Dmitry Shachnev" <mitya57 at debian.org>, "Agustin Martin" <agmartin at debian.org>, "Debian
> Qt/KDE Maintainers" <pkg-kde-talk at alioth-lists.debian.net>, "Roland Rosenfeld" <roland at debian.org>, "Rene Engelhard"
> <rene at debian.org>, "Mattia Rizzolo" <mattia at debian.org>, "Debian Chromium Team" <chromium at packages.debian.org>,
> "Timothy Pearson" <tpearson at raptorengineering.com>
> Sent: Monday, December 26, 2022 2:33:52 PM
> Subject: Re: Bug#1020387: dictionaries-common: Consensus regarding the packaging of the Qt WebEngine hunspell binary
> dictionaries

> 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.

For what it's worth I'm interested in obtaining upload privileges to further assist, but I think I need a sponsor etc. for that process?

Thanks!