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
