Package: hunspell-tools Version: 1.7.1-1 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer,
I would like to suggest removing the unmunch tool from the hunspell-tools package. It has been marked as "deprecated" in the README file of the hunspell repository since 2017 (https://github.com/hunspell/hunspell/commit/52ba94e6b376d444faa5a27b314f13bc404fcd90), and has not received any substantial update for many years, so its bugs are unlikely to be fixed. It apparently does not support many newer hunspell features (see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13725861/generate-all-word-forms-using-lucene-hunspell/66661578#66661578 and https://github.com/hunspell/hunspell/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20unmunch), which makes its usefulness limited. In the case the input affix file uses some of the unsupported features, unmunch does not fail with an error message; it instead misparses the input, and outputs many incorrect words. This might not be apparent on the first glance on the output. (I myself have run into this issue, and did not notice that immediately.) The command itself does not indicate its deprecation or its limitations. Another solution would be to move unmunch (possibly together with munch, another deprecated command) to a separate package, which would indicate that it is intended for legacy use only, and that it has bugs that are not going to be fixed. Best regards, Samuel Plavec
