[R-pkg-team] Bug#1028130: r-cran-hunspell: please don't use internal en_US and en_GB dictionaries

[Rene Engelhard]

Package: r-cran-hunspell
Version: 3.0.2+dfsg-1
Severity: important
Tags: patch

Dear Maintainer,

I just noticed

/usr/lib/R/site-library/hunspell/dict/en_GB.aff
/usr/lib/R/site-library/hunspell/dict/en_GB.dic
/usr/lib/R/site-library/hunspell/dict/en_US.aff
/usr/lib/R/site-library/hunspell/dict/en_US.dic
/usr/lib/R/site-library/hunspell/dict/readme.txt

uh? There is

hunspell-en-gb
hunspell-en-us

and gazillions of other dictionaries?

That one even says

Dec 2018: Updated en_US / en_GB from
  https://extensions.libreoffice.org/extensions/english-dictionaries/2018-11.01

If there's no mechanism in R to
handle them it seems they look in /usr/lib/R/site-library/hunspell? So
there just can be a symlink

/usr/lib/R/site-library/hunspell/dict -> /usr/share/hunspell ?

Filing it as important as that fits its definition:

1 important  a bug which has a major effect on the usability of a package, without rendering it completely unusable to everyone.

It doesn't seem to support anything else than en_US and en_GB, so...

Regards,

Rene