On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 08:44:07PM +0200, Agustin Martin wrote: > > holding us on just blinding stop providing myspell dictionaries (read it > > as: dictionaries in the myspell directory? > > There should be no dictionaries in the myspell directory, using or not > advanced hunspell-only features, all should go in the hunspell directory.
Yes. > > Also, most of the myspell-* packages I saw where shipping files in the > > hunspell directory, and the others were just symlink them to the myspell > > dir. > > Those are buggy, using /usr/share/myspell is deprecated since years ago. > hunspell still looks there also, but that location is more than obsolete. Yes. > > What I'm silently trying to do this release cicle is to smooth the way > > to remove all myspell-* packages duing buster, at least for those that > > are de-facto unmaintained, aka the most of them. > > We are mixing two things, dictionaries that come from old myspell or early > hunspell (which are also fine to be used for aspell), using a subset of > hunspell features and dictionaries using advanced hunspell-only features. > Both can be used by hunspell, just that first ones were named myspell-* > (or hunspell-* if packaged recently) and the second ones must be named > hunspell-*. The problem is to find out who did what because _of course_ that is rarely (if never) documented :/ I am so sure that we have myspell-* packages actually using hunspell features and that they needed a rename. Regards, Rene