Bug#1020480: hunspell-be: Package the Qt WebEngine binary dictionary files from your Hunspell source
Soren Stoutner
Version: 0.53-3.1
Severity: wishlist
Qt WebEngine has the ability to use Hunspell dictionaries for spell checking,
but they require that the dictionary files be converted to a special binary
format (.bdic). This conversion can be done using qwebengine_convert_dict from
the qtwebengine5-dev-tools package. The upstream documentation regarding this
is found on Qt's website:
https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtwebengine-features.html#spellchecker
Once these libraries are available they can be used by any program that includes
Qt WebEngine.
There is desire to package these libraries in Debian, which is fairly easy to do
from your source package with a few minor modifications. However, it is first
necessary to determine the best way to handle the binary packages and which
directory to store the files in. There is a meta-bug that has been filed
against dictionaries-common for the purpose of developing a consensus as to the
best way to do this:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1020387
If you have any input on this subject it would be appreciated.
Soren Stoutner
The dependencies are finally in place so this can be implemented.
To make things simpler for dictionary packagers, we are using a virtual
package and an unversioned path for the conversion tool so that dictionary
packagers don’t have to make modifications to their packages when the versions
of Qt change in Debian.
All you should need to do is the following:
1. Build-depend on `convert-bdic`.
2. Use /usr/bin/convert-bdic to do the dictionary conversion.
3. Place the .bdic files in /usr/share/hunspell-bdic.
More detailed information can be found in the dictionary packager
documentation at:
file:///usr/share/doc/dictionaries-common-dev/dsdt-policy.html#hunspell-bdic
Thanks,
Soren
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Soren Stoutner
Control: tags -1 patch
I created a pull request at:
https://github.com/375gnu/hunspell-be/pull/3
Out of curiosity, it seems that the GitHub repository contains information for several releases that never made it into the Debian repository.
https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/hunspell-be
Do you know why that was?
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