Source: grammalecte Version: 2.1.2+ds2-3 Severity: normal Control: affects -1 src:hunspell-fr
Dear Maintainer, I maintain the French Hunspell dictionaries in Debian (package src:hunspell-fr). For some time now, upstream has stopped publishing new source archives for src:hunspell-fr. I contacted the upstream developer about this issue, without success so far.¹ However, I recently realized that the Hunspell dictionaries are still being updated in grammalecte. Furthermore, I understand that the real source of these dictionaries is actually in src:grammalecte, and that until now what I thought were the source archives of the Hunspell dictionaries were in fact a by-product of the compilation of the true sources which are in grammalecte. For these two reasons, I think that the binary packages of the Hunspell dictionaries (hunspell-fr, hunspell-fr-classical, hunspell-fr-comprehensive, hunspell-fr-revised) should rather be produced by src:grammalecte. It seems to me that this would be relatively easy to do technically. There is however a small question around the version numbers. The dictionaries have their own version numbers (currently of the form 7.x) which do not correspond to the versions of grammalecte. I do not understand the relationship between these two numbers, and the upstream developer has not answered my question about this. The easiest solution would probably be for the binary packages of Hunspell dictionaries to adopt the same version number as grammalecte, but by adding an epoch (the latest Debian version of hunspell-fr is versioned 1:7.0-1, so the new version of these packages should be versioned 2:2.1.2+ds2-2, i.e. with an epoch equal to 2; some packages already do this kind of manipulation, this should not be a problem). Please let me know your thoughts on this. I can help with the implementation once we agree on the design. Best wishes, ¹ http://grammalecte.net:8080/tktview?name=c7c88225ef -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Sébastien Villemot ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian Developer ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://sebastien.villemot.name ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ https://www.debian.org
