Bug#897274: myspell-fo: Refactor package name to hunspell-fo

On Tue, May 01, 2018 at 09:57:33AM +0200, Pander wrote:
> Package: myspell-fo
> Severity: normal
> Tags: l10n
> 
> Please refactor the name of the package myspell-fo to hunspell-fo. This
> is the only remaining package containing Hunspell dictionaries that has
> the old name from Myspell.

Hi,

Some years ago, when designing the policy for spellchecking dictionaries we
decided to keep the myspell-xx name for dictionaries working only with
myspell and hunspell-xx for dictionaries designed to use hunspell features
(not working with myspell). This is the reason for old names, not a
renaming for the new tool,

http://dict-common.alioth.debian.org/dsdt-policy.html

Regarding languages where there are both myspell-xx and hunspell-xx
available there are two different cases,

 * hunspell-xx is created by same authors as myspell-xx being just am
   updated version with more features. In this case, myspell-xx is made a
   transitional package to hunspell-xx.

 * hunspell-xx and myspell-xx are created by different authors and have
   different features. 
   - In this case, if there is clear consensus that hunspell-xx dict is
     much better than myspell-xx this last one is made a transitional
     package.
   - If there is no clear consensus I prefer to keep both alive and let
     users decide.

If there is only myspell-xx I prefer to follow current policy and keep it as
such. This way we can track better new really hunspell dict if created. This
is the case for myspell-fo and so I prefer not to make the change.

I am cc'ing the dict-common-dev mailing list in case someone else wants to
contribute. Note that this list will soon be disabled.

Unless convinced of a policy change I will mark this as wontfix.

Thanks for your contribution.

Regards,