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

[Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer]

Hi!

On Fri, 6 Jan 2023 at 12:22, Dmitry Shachnev <mitya57 at debian.org> wrote:
>
> 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.

I understand they pose a security issue, or possible one. But I'm
afraid I do not know the details.

I also would need to read the whole thread in order to see if there is
any other option...