Hi,
Am 16.02.23 um 02:24 schrieb Lisandro Damian Nicanor Perez Meyer:
- Hunspell dictionaries should be handled by... hunspell. Yes, I know
this was
considered and it's still not possible. But the fact that webengine ships them
is not enough a reason to expose them to the world instead of doing the right
thing: handling them there.
Then make it use hunspell.
Unpatched and with the same format.
It's not as if hunspell invented a binary format for no gain at all
instead of just differentiating for differentiating.
Same with an internal *patched* hunspell copy.
- If the patches are taken and at some point webengine upstreams decide to
switch to something else then we the Qt maintainers get the broken pieces.
Insta RC bugs, we get this package stopped from migrating to testing until
solving the issue... a pain.
e.g.
That is already the case. All packages building bdic right now *are*
laready using it (and be it via usage of installdeb-myspell which calls
the binary):
root@frodo:/# apt-cache showsrc igerman98
Package: igerman98
Binary: ingerman, iswiss, wngerman, wswiss, rmligs-german,
hunspell-de-at, hunspell-de-ch, hunspell-de-de, aspell-de
Version: 20161207-11
Maintainer: Roland Rosenfeld <rol...@debian.org>
Uploaders: Rene Engelhard <r...@debian.org>
Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13)
Build-Depends-Indep: aspell, busybox, dictionaries-common-dev (>=
1.29.3), hunspell, qt6-webengine-dev-tools, ispell
[...]
So no, I'm totally against these change. Dmitry, Patrick: my suggestion is to
reverse the patches.
If you revert the virtual package it's still too late. And it
complicates things even more since then people need to change their
build-dependency (and maybe calls) explicitely, causing more PITA.
The virtual package will help with that in that this will automagically
happen.
And the whole bdic thingy: It's there, in in qtwebengine itself.
dictionaries-commons policy, in installdeb-myspell --bdic-only etc.
And Soren has a point, Debian should support those .bdic files is
possible, how broken their existence may be.
Regards,
Rene
