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

[Soren Stoutner]

What is the Debian policy on this?  If a user does not have any Hunspell 
dictionaries installed it will result in a dangling symlink.  We could have 
some essential package create the /usr/share/hunspell-bdic directory, but in 
that case /usr/share/huspell-bdic will exist on systems that don’t intend to 
ever install any Hunspell dictionaries, which may be considered by some to be 
suboptimal.

From a functionality perspective I don’t think there are any problems with the 
dangling symlink.  Programs built on Qt WebEngine will simply report that no 
dictionaries are available but otherwise will continue to function properly.  
This can be verified with the Falcon instruction I posted previously.

Once we figure out the dangling symlink question, who do we need to talk to in 
order to get a similar symlink created for /usr/share/qt6/
qtwebengine_dictionaries?

On Thursday, January 5, 2023 4:26:19 AM MST Dmitry Shachnev wrote:
> 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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Soren Stoutner
soren at stoutner.com
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