[Pkg-chromium-maint] Bug#814552: chromium-browser: Please allow spelling to use user’s word lists

[Reuben Thomas]

Package: chromium-browser
Version: 48.0.2564.82-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.1108
Severity: normal

Chromium, like many other Debian programs, uses hunspell for spelling.
However, unlike most other apps that use hunspell directly or indirectly
(e.g. Firefox, Pidgin, LibreOffice), Chromium uses a custom personal word
list format, and hence can’t share a per-user word list. (The other programs
mentioned can simply have their user wordlist file symlinked to a single
file, e.g. ~/.hunspell_en_GB.)

Would it be possible to patch Chromium to integrate it better with Debian in
this respect?

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers trusty-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'trusty-updates'), (500, 'trusty-security'), (500, 'trusty'), (100, 'trusty-backports'), (90, 'xenial-updates'), (90, 'xenial')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.19.0-47-generic (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages chromium-browser depends on:
ii  bash                          4.3-7ubuntu1.5
ii  chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra  48.0.2564.82-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.1108
ii  dpkg                          1.17.5ubuntu5.5
ii  gconf-service                 3.2.6-0ubuntu2
ii  libasound2                    1.0.27.2-3ubuntu7
ii  libatk1.0-0                   2.10.0-2ubuntu2
ii  libc6                         2.19-0ubuntu6.6
ii  libcairo2                     1.13.0~20140204-0ubuntu1.1
ii  libcomerr2                    1.42.9-3ubuntu1.3
ii  libcups2                      1.7.2-0ubuntu1.7
ii  libdbus-1-3                   1.6.18-0ubuntu4.3
ii  libexpat1                     2.1.0-4ubuntu1.1
ii  libfontconfig1                2.11.0-0ubuntu4.1
ii  libfreetype6                  2.5.2-1ubuntu2.5
ii  libgcc1                       1:4.9.3-0ubuntu4
ii  libgconf-2-4                  3.2.6-0ubuntu2
ii  libgcrypt11                   1.5.3-2ubuntu4.2
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0            2.30.7-0ubuntu1.2
ii  libglib2.0-0                  2.40.2-0ubuntu1
ii  libgnome-keyring0             3.8.0-2
ii  libgssapi-krb5-2              1.12+dfsg-2ubuntu5.2
ii  libgtk2.0-0                   2.24.23-0ubuntu1.3
ii  libk5crypto3                  1.12+dfsg-2ubuntu5.2
ii  libkrb5-3                     1.12+dfsg-2ubuntu5.2
ii  libnspr4                      2:4.10.10-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
ii  libnspr4-0d                   2:4.10.10-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
ii  libnss3                       2:3.19.2.1-0ubuntu0.14.04.2
ii  libpam0g                      1.1.8-1ubuntu2
ii  libpango-1.0-0                1.36.3-1ubuntu1.1
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0           1.36.3-1ubuntu1.1
ii  libpangoft2-1.0-0             1.36.3-1ubuntu1.1
ii  libstdc++6                    5.2.1-15ubuntu1
ii  libx11-6                      2:1.6.2-1ubuntu2
ii  libxcomposite1                1:0.4.4-1
ii  libxcursor1                   1:1.1.14-1
ii  libxdamage1                   1:1.1.4-1ubuntu1
ii  libxext6                      2:1.3.2-1ubuntu0.0.14.04.1
ii  libxfixes3                    1:5.0.1-1ubuntu1.1
ii  libxi6                        2:1.7.1.901-1ubuntu1.1
ii  libxrandr2                    2:1.4.2-1
ii  libxrender1                   1:0.9.8-1build0.14.04.1
ii  libxss1                       1:1.2.2-1
ii  libxtst6                      2:1.2.2-1
ii  xdg-utils                     1.1.0~rc1-2ubuntu7.1
ii  zlib1g                        1:1.2.8.dfsg-1ubuntu1

Versions of packages chromium-browser recommends:
ii  chromium-browser-l10n  48.0.2564.82-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.1108

Versions of packages chromium-browser suggests:
pn  adobe-flashplugin               <none>
pn  unity-chromium-extension        <none>
pn  webaccounts-chromium-extension  <none>

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/chromium-browser/default changed [not included]
/etc/default/chromium-browser [Errno 2] No such file or directory: u'/etc/default/chromium-browser'

-- no debconf information