Elliott Sales de Andrade <quantum.analyst(a)gmail.com> writes:
On Wed, 29 Dec 2021 at 10:02, Ben Cotton <bcotton(a)redhat.com>
wrote:
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>
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Hunspell_dictionary_dir_change
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> == Summary ==
> Update Hunspell Dictionary system directory from /usr/share/myspell/
> to /usr/share/hunspell/
>
> == Owner ==
> * Name: [[User:vishalvvr| Vishal Vijayraghavan]]
> * Email: <vishalvvr(a)fedoraproject.org>
>
>
> == Detailed Description ==
> In most of Linux distributions the standard Hunspell dictionary path
> is `/usr/share/hunspell/` but in Fedora still has
> `/usr/share/myspell/`. This effort is to follow default standard to
> install all Hunspell dictionary into `/usr/share/hunspell/` instead of
> `/usr/share/myspell/`.
>
>
> == Benefit to Fedora ==
> This will future proof Fedora to use the correct current location for
> hunspell spelling dictionaries.
>
> == Scope ==
> * Proposal owners:
> In total there are `135` packages which is to be updated. libreoffice
> & Firefox are the two main applications and rest are mostly language
> dictionary packages.
>
> * Other developers:
>
> * Policies and guidelines: N/A (not needed for this Change)
> * Trademark approval: N/A (not needed for this Change)
> * Alignment with Objectives:
>
>
> == Upgrade/compatibility impact ==
>
>
> == How To Test ==
> 1. Check if default installed dictionary path is
> `/usr/share/hunspell/` instead of `/usr/share/myspell/`
>
> `$ hunspell -D` or `$ ls /usr/share/hunspell/`
>
> 2. Install any language dictionary and check if it getting installed
> into '/usr/share/hunspell/'
>
> `$ dnf install hunspell-hi`
>
> `$ hunspell -D`
>
If, as mentioned above, this will possibly affect applications such as
Firefox and LibreOffice, then those should also be tested as well.
Emacs and other text editors could be affected by this as well.
Cheers,
Dan