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

[Dmitry Shachnev]

On Thu, Jan 05, 2023 at 03:18:14PM -0700, Soren Stoutner wrote:
> 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.

Okay. I think it makes sense. I will include this change in my next upload
(5.15.12 release).

> 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?

Patrick Franz who is CCed.

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Dmitry Shachnev
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