Changes/Hunspell dictionary dir change

Hunspell Dictionary dir change

Summary

Update Hunspell Dictionary system directory from /usr/share/myspell/ to /usr/share/hunspell/

Owner

• Name: Vishal Vijayraghavan
• Email: <vishalvvr@fedoraproject.org>
• Name: Parag Nemade
• Email: <pnemade@redhat.com>

Current status

• Targeted release: Fedora Linux 36
• Last updated: 2022-01-18
• devel thread
• FESCo issue: #2730
• Tracker bug: #2041930
• Release notes tracker: #789

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:
  • PR for Hunspell package
    • Rename dir name from myspell/ to hunspell/
    • Create symlink myspell (to have better backward compatibility)
  • PRs for language dictionaries (121 packages):
    • Update “install dir” from myspell/ to hunspell/
  • PRs for libreoffice & firefox:
    • Update dictionary usage path from myspell/ to hunspell/
  • Test copr repo

• Other developers:
  • merge PRs to update path in hunspell-* dictionaries
  • Merge PRs to update path dictionary path for libreoffice & Firefox

• 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/

$ 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

3. Test spellchecking working in desktop apps for your language (eg Libreoffice, Firefox, Gedit, Evolution, Thunderbird, KDE, Emacs, etc)

4. Spellchecking on commandline: aspell, hunspell, nuspell

User Experience

User should not notice any difference: their applications should continue to work as expected after this directory migration.

Contingency Plan

• Contingency mechanism: revert release back to /usr/share/myspell
• Contingency deadline: Beta
• Blocks release? No