Changes/Hunspell dictionary dir change

Hunspell Dictionary dir change from myspell to hunspell

Summary

Update Hunspell Dictionary dir from /usr/share/myspell/ to /usr/share/hunspell/

Owner

• Name: Vishal Vijayraghavan
• Email: <vishalvvr@fedoraproject.org>

Current status

• Targeted release: Fedora Linux 36
• Last updated: 2021-12-13
• FESCo issue: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>
• Tracker bug: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>
• Release notes tracker: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>

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:

• Release engineering: #Releng issue number

• Policies and guidelines: N/A (not needed for this Change)

• Trademark approval: N/A (not needed for this Change)

• Alignment with Objectives:

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

Contingency Plan

• Contingency mechanism: (What to do? Who will do it?) N/A (not a System Wide Change)
• Contingency deadline: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
• Blocks release? N/A (not a System Wide Change), Yes/No

Documentation

N/A (not a System Wide Change)