Migrate to hunspell-en-us in libreoffice-dictionaries

Bug #1718869 reported by Amr Ibrahim
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hunspell-en-us (Debian)
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hunspell-en-us (Ubuntu)
Won't Fix
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libreoffice-dictionaries (Debian)
Fix Released
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libreoffice-dictionaries (Ubuntu)
Won't Fix
Undecided
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scowl (Debian)
Fix Released
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scowl (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

libreoffice-dictionaries upstream ships hunspell-en-us, which is properly maintained and is newer than the one currently in Debian and Ubuntu (20070829-6ubuntu3). 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.

Debian bugs:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=874519
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=795159

Inside the source of libreoffice-dictionaries in Debian, I can find en_US.aff and en_US.dic but there is not a built package for them.
https://sources.debian.net/src/libreoffice-dictionaries/1:5.2.5-1/dictionaries/en/

See this README from the Libreoffice/dictionaries git,
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/dictionaries/tree/en/README_en_US.txt

It seems that this is now dead,
https://sourceforge.net/projects/hunspell/files/Spelling%20dictionaries/en_US/

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: hunspell-en-us 20070829-6ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-11.12-generic 4.13.1
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-11-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Fri Sep 22 09:43:32 2017
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-09-21 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Alpha amd64 (20170919)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: hunspell-en-us
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Amr Ibrahim (amribrahim1987) wrote :
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Amr Ibrahim (amribrahim1987) wrote :
description: updated
description: updated
Changed in hunspell-en-us (Debian):
status: Unknown → New
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Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj) wrote :

Hi Amr, thanks for your report.

libreoffice-dictionaries is synced from Debian, so this change should be made at the Debian level. I'd advise you to also file a src:libreoffice-dictionaries bug report to Debian, where you can refer to the one already filed for hunspell-en-us. Doing so might increase the chances to get the right persons' attention. :)

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Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj) wrote :

I saw the reaction on <https://bugs.debian.org/878315>. So the maintainer of the hunspell-en-us package tried to roll his own but failed, and the conclusion is to keep the version from 2007 instead of making use of the maintained one provided by lo-dicts? TBH it makes little sense to me.

@Mattia: Any advice? Can't help playing with the thought to do this in Ubuntu only. It's US English we are talking about, after all.

Changed in libreoffice-dictionaries (Debian):
status: Unknown → Won't Fix
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Mattia Rizzolo (mapreri) wrote :

I also disagree with Rene here, but I'd rather not go against his explicit wishes.

It would be more interesting to try to update src:hunspell-en-us, to at least try to update it, at this point.

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Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj) wrote :

Sure, if that can be accomplished somehow. But if I understood it correctly, Rene failed to do so.

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Mattia Rizzolo (mapreri) wrote :
Changed in hunspell-en-us (Debian):
status: New → Fix Released
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Amr Ibrahim (amribrahim1987) wrote :

The newest hunspell-en-us is now in scowl (2017.08.24-1) in Debian. Please migrate to that.

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Mattia Rizzolo (mapreri) wrote :

scowl is not being autosynced because of the binary takeover that is a bit tricky, I asked for manual sync

Changed in libreoffice-dictionaries (Ubuntu):
status: New → Won't Fix
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Graham Inggs (ginggs) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package scowl - 2017.08.24-1
Sponsored for Mattia Rizzolo (mapreri)

---------------
scowl (2017.08.24-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release
  * Move sangs (plural of an obscure plant) to -95 (Closes: #861025).
    Thanks to Josh Triplett.
  * variant_0 and variant_1 are now _1 and _2; update rules to properly
    include them (Closes: #867586). Thanks to 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson.
  * build hunspell-en-{us,au,ca} from here. The versions in
    libreoffice-dictionaries are built from here anyway (closes: #795159,
    #874519, #879199). Thanks to Rene Engelhard for the patch.

 -- Don Armstrong <email address hidden> Fri, 20 Oct 2017 12:09:03 -0700

Changed in scowl (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Released
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Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj) wrote :

Nothing to do with hunspell-en-us (Ubuntu), then.

Changed in hunspell-en-us (Ubuntu):
status: New → Won't Fix
Changed in scowl (Debian):
status: Unknown → Fix Released
Changed in libreoffice-dictionaries (Debian):
status: Won't Fix → Fix Released
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