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

[Rene Engelhard]

Am 16.02.23 um 21:37 schrieb Soren Stoutner:
> It would be fine with me if Chromium provided the virtual package and symlink
> used to build the .bdic files.  My only concern is that it is important that
> these always exist in Stable and Old Stable going forward.

Yes. Not only for backporting but as soon as e.g. scowl will use it the 
whole thing will be in a key package build-dependency chain 
(libreoffice) as hunspell-en-us is used as part of its tests. Probably 
even more.

Basically any hunspell dictionary then requires chromium to be there.


On and off ("shipping dictionaries whether chromium is in a good state 
or not") is bad.


>    Otherwise, it
> makes backporting Hunspell language packages more difficult (not impossible,
> just more time consuming for the language package maintainers).

No hunspell package really needs backporting at all, they are arch all 
and can just be installed. :)

And be it with dpkg -i :-)


Regards,


Rene


> On Thursday, February 16, 2023 1:19:45 PM MST Andres Salomon wrote:
>> Related to this - we got approval for chromium to ship in bookworm
>> (#1004441). That doesn't necessarily mean it'll be in future releases
>> (trixie or whatever), of course, but if it's easier for the dependency
>> chain; I'm open to discussing having chromium provide it.
>>
>> I haven't followed all of this very long thread, so it may be
>> irrelevant at this point. :)