Hi! On Fri, 6 Jan 2023 at 12:22, Dmitry Shachnev <mity...@debian.org> wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 05, 2023 at 03:18:14PM -0700, Soren Stoutner wrote: > > What is the Debian policy on this? If a user does not have any Hunspell > > dictionaries installed it will result in a dangling symlink. We could have > > some essential package create the /usr/share/hunspell-bdic directory, but in > > that case /usr/share/huspell-bdic will exist on systems that don’t intend to > > ever install any Hunspell dictionaries, which may be considered by some to > > be > > suboptimal. > > > > From a functionality perspective I don’t think there are any problems with > > the > > dangling symlink.
I understand they pose a security issue, or possible one. But I'm afraid I do not know the details. I also would need to read the whole thread in order to see if there is any other option... -- https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-kde-talk