Seeing as this is how Qt WebEngine is designed upstream, I think it is important to support it in Debian. From my personal perspective, the program I am developing (Privacy Browser) depends on Qt WebEngine and needs spell checking functionality to be viable in Debian.
I have been working with the Qt 5 and 6 WebEngine code base recently and have submitted patches both to Debian and upstream. My goal is to make the WebEngine packages Lintian free, which is going to require a bit of work, but I am in it for the long haul. I am also willing to become the maintainer of the WebEngine packages or to co-maintain them with others. While I agree that the entire design of the .bdic binary dictionaries is suboptimal, I think that appropriately supporting them in Debian is the best way forward. On Thursday, February 16, 2023 4:25:45 AM MST Lisandro Damian Nicanor Perez Meyer wrote: > By the way: I **do** understand that what you all are proposing is an easy > way out and sounds like it makes sense. > > Now I have been around Qt for 10+ years already, and suffered each and every > web engine of the day source code during all this time. I know how > problematic it can be and how, at the end of the day, is us maintainers > then one that get the broken pieces when something breaks. Really, it's a > pain. > > Had this occurred in another Qt submodule I would probably not be so adamant > in avoiding it. But webengine/webkit where always a PITA. And I do not > expect that to change, I'm afraid. -- Soren Stoutner so...@stoutner.com
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