Dear Maintainer,
I consider the first line in /usr/share/dictd/freedict-spa-deu.index is
invalid since it has only 2 entries:
"	DTHY	h"

According to https://linux.die.net/man/8/dictd the index shall have
always 3 entries:
"... The flat text file contains dictionary entries (or any other
suitable data), and the index contains tab-delimited tuples consisting
of the headword, the byte offset at which this entry begins in the flat
text file, and the length of the entry in bytes..."

I noticed this problem using pyglossary, which reports a related syntax
failure and stops conversion.

I also noticed the related package freedict-spa-deu-0.1.dictd.tar.xz
(sha512 9e33dd3294c8a24...) on https://freedict.org has the same
problem. But I could not resolve the root cause in the sources.


Best Regards
Hannes

Dear Maintainer,

I found related syntax problems in spa-deu/spa-deu.tei and fixed them
with attached patch. The dictd file spa-deu.index now looks fine.

I also scanned all other dictionaries for the same problem but found no
other candidates. I try to provide also a related upstream patch.

Best regards
Hannes

Hi Hannes

Thanks for your enthusiasm to fix this.

Hannes Müller schrieb am 09.12.2019, 21:03 +0100:

This patch still shows issues:


It should be `<orth>modista</orth>`. Since it seems that spa-deu.tei is broken
anyway, it is probably better to fix its importer script. We import it from
the Ding format and the importer is currently in a rather bad shape. Any
chance you would like to look into it :)? We could still patch it downstream,
but I feel this is not the best solution.

Thanks for this.

Sebastian