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

[Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer]

El jueves, 16 de febrero de 2023 13:42:42 -03 Soren Stoutner escribió:
> 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.

I'm totally in for this, but then I need to see proves before continue 
exposing internal stuff to third parties. It's very much the same issue with 
private headers.

I would definitely do not mind to expose this if the Qt project compiles the 
bdic files as part of their build process *and* it's part of their CI testing.
 
> 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.

Believe me I try to do the same, but web engines already made me waste too 
much time, so I try to avoid whatever could bring us yet another headache. A 
simple error can easily cost a couple of hours.
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