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

[Soren Stoutner]

In discussion with the Qt 5 maintainer, we have found a solution that does not use a 
symlink, which will be included in the upcoming 5.15.12+dfsg-3 release.

More information can be found at:

https://salsa.debian.org/qt-kde-team/qt/qtwebengine/-/merge_requests/12[1]

On Monday, January 9, 2023 11:37:58 AM MST Soren Stoutner wrote:
> For sake of completeness, it was previously discussed that it would be
> possible to patch the Qt WebEngine source to directly look for the
> dictionaries in /usr/share/hunspell-bdic instead of the default upstream
> location.  It is unclear how much ongoing maintenance effort that would
> entail, but it is a possible solution if the symlink is unacceptable.

-- 
Soren Stoutner
soren at stoutner.com

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[1] https://salsa.debian.org/qt-kde-team/qt/qtwebengine/-/merge_requests/12
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