Bug#999732: libreoffice-dictionaries: Please adopt hunspell-an

[Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org>]

Hi,

Am 15.11.21 um 17:40 schrieb Agustin Martin:
> Please enable hunspell-an build from libreoffice-dictionaries sources.
>
> This was originally requested by Dimitrij Mijoski in #991966 hunspell-an bug
> report, I am copying his reasoning,
Cc'ed.
>
>   Package: hunspell-an
>
>   The current package shows a Firefox extension as Homepage (and probably
>   upstream). This is not a very good upstream. The Aragonese dictionary is
>   unmaintained (no updates since 2011) and it has no real upstream. It would
>   be best to use https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/dictionaries/
>   as upstream and
>   https://packages.debian.org/source/sid/libreoffice-dictionaries as source
>   package.

Which doesn't really change the problem:


rene@frodo:~/LibreOffice/git/master/dictionaries$ git log an_ES/
commit b5b5c88c12835a7043c09f0d5140ff1318e9671b
Author: David Tardon <dtardon@redhat.com>
Date:   Wed Oct 24 06:08:36 2012 +0200

    drop stray delzip files
   
    Change-Id: I235d23248469b760da69983575dfcd73431757d4

commit c918f1d4242d9fd9a8de284e6b32b8c00e59debe
Author: Michael Stahl <mstahl@redhat.com>
Date:   Tue Oct 23 20:05:55 2012 +0200

    gbuild: let ExtensionTarget expect manifest below META-INF
   
    ... adapt dictionaries to that.

commit a4473e06b56bfe35187e302754f6baaa8d75e54f
Author: Norbert Thiebaud <nthiebaud@gmail.com>
Date:   Sat Sep 1 09:50:26 2012 -0500

    move dictionaries structure one directory up
   
    Change-Id: I70388bf6b95d8692cc6f25fc5a9c7baf3a675710
rene@frodo:~/LibreOffice/git/master/dictionaries$ git log an_ES/
an_ES.aff         an_ES.dic         description.xml   dictionaries.xcu 
LICENSES-en.txt   META-INF/        
rene@frodo:~/LibreOffice/git/master/dictionaries$ git log an_ES/an_ES.aff
commit a4473e06b56bfe35187e302754f6baaa8d75e54f
Author: Norbert Thiebaud <nthiebaud@gmail.com>
Date:   Sat Sep 1 09:50:26 2012 -0500

    move dictionaries structure one directory up
   
    Change-Id: I70388bf6b95d8692cc6f25fc5a9c7baf3a675710
rene@frodo:~/LibreOffice/git/master/dictionaries$ git log an_ES/an_ES.dic
commit a4473e06b56bfe35187e302754f6baaa8d75e54f
Author: Norbert Thiebaud <nthiebaud@gmail.com>
Date:   Sat Sep 1 09:50:26 2012 -0500

    move dictionaries structure one directory up
   
    Change-Id: I70388bf6b95d8692cc6f25fc5a9c7baf3a675710

This hasn't changed since 2012 either. and that is just some makefile
reorga...


>   Why this should be done? Because there are certain bugs with the
>   dictionary and the libreoffice repository is the only place where the bug
>   can be fixed. I certanly can not fix it in the Firefox extension [1] or
>   the Libreoffice extension [2].

Which didn't happen, though in the last 9 years...


Regards,


Rene