Bug#627079: tasksel: Drop dependencies on some dictionaries (ispell)
"Nelson A. de Oliveira" <naoliv@debian.org> wrote:
> I was seeing that on newly installed systems, both ispell and aspell are
> installed.
> >From ispell's NEWS.Debian (version 3.3.02-4) we have:
>
> =====
> This is the latest, and most probably the last, upstream version of ispell.
> Support for HTML or TeX files checking was slightly improved, limited support
> for UTF-8 in American and British dictionaries was added (`ispell -T utf8'),
> and plenty of old bugs were fixed.
Situation hasn't improved in the past 7 years, so ispell seems orphaned
upstream.
Should we drop the depends for it now (at least, where aspell is there as
an alternative) ?
Holger
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