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

[Dmitry Shachnev]

Hi Soren!

On Wed, Jan 04, 2023 at 02:28:45PM -0700, Soren Stoutner wrote:
> Dmitry,
>
> I wanted to followup on the topic of symlinks from /usr/share/qt5/
> qtwebengine_dictionaries and /usr/share/qt6/qtwebengine_dictionaries to /usr/
> share/hunspell-bdic.
>
> Now that some of the languages are shipping .bdic files, anyone can test how 
> this works with programs that use Qt WebEngine.  For example, install Falkon.  
> In the Preferences, go to the spell check tab.  A list of all available 
> languages will auto-populate.  Enable at least one language and then type 
> words into the search field in the middle of the screen to verify that spell 
> checking is working.
>
> However, the above instructions only work if there is a symlink from /usr/
> share/qt5/qtwebengine_dictionaries to /usr/share/hunspell-bdic.  Users can 
> manually create this symlink to test this out, but it would be preferable if 
> one of the webengine packages would add it.

Sorry, I somehow missed your previous email.

Committed this change now:
https://salsa.debian.org/qt-kde-team/qt/qtwebengine/-/commit/eb6bf5d49fb84bf7

However, if none of the dictionaries is installed, the symlink will be
dangling. Do you think it's okay, or we should find how to fix this?

--
Dmitry Shachnev
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