Bug#878315: Migrate to hunspell-en-us in libreoffice-dictionaries
severity 878315 wishlist
tag 878315 + wontfix
thanks
Hi,
On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 05:34:24PM +0000, Amr Ibrahim wrote:
> Package: src:libreoffice-dictionaries
How is this a normal bug? Correct, it is not. ;)
> libreoffice-dictionaries upstream ships hunspell-en-us, which is properly maintained and is newer than the one currently in Debian (20070829-7). Please consider migrating to the one in libreoffice-dictionaries. The other English variants (British, Australian and others) are already provided by libreoffice-dictionaries and are more up-to-date than the US variant.
No, I consider libreoffice-dictionaries a (unfortunately needed at this time)
misfeature. Ideally stuff gets packages from where it comes from and where
the source is - not just shipping the "binaries" in a "copy stuff from XYZ
and ship it here" fashion. And those dicts can be maintained by people
actually talking the language.
If anything should happen it should be building the hunspell-en-us
stuff out of where it comes from. See below.
> See this README from the Libreoffice/dictionaries git,
> https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/dictionaries/tree/en/README_en_US.txt
Which itself says it comes from SCOWL.
I once tried it but the scripts needed to do that were missing (but referenced)
in SCOWL, so I eventually gave up.
>
> It seems that this is now dead,
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/hunspell/files/Spelling%20dictionaries/en_US/
>
> Thanks
> Amr
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