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

[Soren Stoutner]

Seeing as this is how Qt WebEngine is designed upstream, I think it is 
important to support it in Debian.  From my personal perspective, the program 
I am developing (Privacy Browser) depends on Qt WebEngine and needs spell 
checking functionality to be viable in Debian.

I have been working with the Qt 5 and 6 WebEngine code base recently and have 
submitted patches both to Debian and upstream.  My goal is to make the 
WebEngine packages Lintian free, which is going to require a bit of work, but 
I am in it for the long haul.  I am also willing to become the maintainer of 
the WebEngine packages or to co-maintain them with others.

While I agree that the entire design of the .bdic binary dictionaries is 
suboptimal, I think that appropriately supporting them in Debian is the best 
way forward.

On Thursday, February 16, 2023 4:25:45 AM MST Lisandro Damian Nicanor Perez 
Meyer wrote:
> By the way: I **do** understand that what you all are proposing is an easy
> way out and sounds like it makes sense.
> 
> Now I have been around Qt for 10+ years already, and suffered each and every
> web engine of the day source code during all this time. I know how
> problematic it can be and how, at the end of the day, is us maintainers
> then one that get the broken pieces when something breaks. Really, it's a
> pain.
> 
> Had this occurred in another Qt submodule I would probably not be so adamant
> in avoiding it. But webengine/webkit where always a PITA. And I do not
> expect that to change, I'm afraid.


-- 
Soren Stoutner
soren at stoutner.com
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