package: debian-edu
severity: important
Hi,
the debian-edu package should workaround #595749 in ispell.
On Dienstag, 7. Dezember 2010, Joey Hess wrote:
> Holger Levsen wrote:
> > I get wfinnish:
> >
> > root:~# aptitude install ~t^russian$
> > The following NEW packages will be installed:
> > aspell{a} aspell-ru dictionaries-common{a} irussian ispell{a} konwert
> > konwert-filters{a} libaspell15{a} manpages-ru mueller7-dict re
> > wfinnish{a} 0 packages upgraded, 12 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0
> > not upgraded. Need to get 9413 kB of archives. After unpacking 29.0 MB
> > will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] ^C
>
> e
>
> wfinnish will be automatically installed to satisfy the following
> dependencies:▒ ▒ * ispell recommends wordlist (provided by miscfiles
> 1.4.2.dfsg.1-9, wamerican▒ 6-3, wamerican-huge 6-3, wamerican-insane 6-3,
> wamerican-large 6-3, ▒ wamerican-small 6-3, wbrazilian 3.0~beta4-14,
> wbritish 6-3, wbritish-huge ▒ 6-3, wbritish-insane 6-3, wbritish-large
> 6-3, wbritish-small 6-3, ▒ wbulgarian 3.0-12, wcanadian 6-3,
> wcanadian-huge 6-3, wcanadian-insane 6-3,▒ wcanadian-large 6-3,
> wcanadian-small 6-3, wcatalan 0.6-10, wdanish ▒ 1.6.25-1, wdutch
> 1:1.10-5, wfaroese 0.2.40-1, wfinnish 0.7-17.3, wfrench ▒ 1.2.3-8,
> wgalician-minimos 0.5-33, wgerman-medical 20100204-1, witalian ▒
> 1.7.3-0.1, wngerman 20091006-4.1, wnorwegian 2.0.10-3.2, wogerman 1:2-26,
> ▒ wpolish 20100612-1, wportuguese 20091013-2, wspanish 1.0.25, wswedish
> ▒ 1.4.5-2, wswiss 20091006-4.1, wukrainian 1.6.0-1)
>
> The problem with ispell recommending wordlist is that it allows apt
> to choose a random one, that can have no relation to the language being
> used (even a special-purpose one like wgerman-medical).
>
> This would be better handled by various ispell dictionary packages
> recommending a wordlist that goes with the dictionary. So iamerican
> could recommend wamerican, and irussian could recommend nothing (as there
> is no russian wordlist).
>
> The only fix that can be made in tasksel would be to not include i<lang>
> in a task unless it can also include w<lang>, and that would be a net
> reversion.
cheers,
Holger
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