Bug 2180175

Summary:	kf5-sonnet shouldn't require legacy spellcheckers aspell and hspell
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	skierpage <info>
Component:	kf5-sonnet	Assignee:	KDE SIG <kde-sig>
Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	39	CC:	jgrulich, kde-sig, rdieter, than
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Description skierpage 2023-03-20 21:15:56 UTC

Description of problem:
My latest `sudo dnf --setopt=install_weak_deps=False update` of F37 installed the aspell, hspell, and libvoikko packages, even though I already have hunspell installed as a requirement of enchant - qtspell-qt5.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kf5-sonnet-5.104.0-1.fc37.src.rpm

How reproducible:
Every time?

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Fedora 37, update it.

Actual results:
`dnf update` installs aspell, hspell, and libvoikko packages.

Expected results:
kf5-sonnet-core shouldn't require legacy spellcheckers when KDE already installs hunspell. I'm not sure if libvoikko should be required for English speakers when the package says "Currently only Finnish is supported."

Additional info:

This change in dependencies may be a result of @marcdeop adding them to kf5-sonnet.spec  https://packages.fedoraproject.org/pkgs/kf5-sonnet/kf5-sonnet-core/fedora-37-updates.html as "missing BuildRequires". They're probably needed to compile the plug-ins but shouldn't be a package dependency?

`git log kf5-sonnet.spec` shows 2014-05-29 Kevin Kofler "Drop BR aspell-devel and hspell-devel to avoid dragging the legacy checkers in", so the new change reverts the old change.

kf5-sonnet installs sonnet_aspell.so, sonnet_hspell.so,sonnet_hunspell.so, and sonnet_voikko.so plug-ins, but I think it's programmed so that if the package for a spellcheck plug-in is missing it only prints a warning message. However, I didn't test this, because:

I can't remove the legacy spellcheckers, `sudo dnf remove aspell hspell` prints
   Problem: The operation would result in removing the following protected packages: plasma-desktop

Comment 1 Aoife Moloney 2023-11-23 01:31:37 UTC

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Comment 2 skierpage 2023-11-23 09:28:09 UTC

Fedora 39 KDE spin still has these spellcheckers installed, `dnf repoquery --installed --whatrequires aspell` (or hspell) still reports that kf5-sonnet-core-0:5.111.0-1.fc39.x86_64 requires them.

Comment 3 Aoife Moloney 2024-11-08 10:50:05 UTC

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Comment 4 skierpage 2024-11-09 07:39:11 UTC

This seems fixed in Fedora 41, and maybe earlier. After a dnf system upgrade I don't have aspell, hspell, or libvoikko installed. There are now separate kf{5,6}-sonnet-{a,h}spell packages, and nothing requires the latter packages; similarly for libvoikko and kf{5,6}-sonnet-voikko. kf{5,6}-sonnet only recommends the kf{5,6}-hunspell package.