Re: Failing spelling tests

[Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>]

Hi Niels,

Niels Thykier wrote:
> I believe we use none of those - instead we are using aspell + aspell-en.

I see. Indeed, those packages are in the b-d. Could have checked
there. :-)

So my first guess is bogus now as I have no other apsell dictionary
installed on that machine:

~ → dpkg -l | fgrep aspell | awk '{print $1" "$2}'
ii aspell
ii aspell-en
ii libaspell-dev:amd64
ii libaspell15:amd64
ii libtext-aspell-perl
~ →

> It seems that the command used is "aspell list -l en -p /dev/null" and
> that Test::Spell has a "set_spell_cmd" that could be (ab)used for this
> purpose.  I have not tested it - but if it works in and outside a clean
> chroot, I certainly do not mind having it in the test case.

Having had a look at /usr/share/perl5/Test/Spelling.pm, I noticed that
not aspell but spell from the package spell is Test::Spelling's top
preference:

sub spellchecker_candidates {
    # if they've specified a spellchecker, use only that one
    return $SPELLCHECKER if $SPELLCHECKER;

    return (
        'spell', # for back-compat, this is the top candidate ...
        'aspell list -l en -p /dev/null', # ... but this should become first soon
        'ispell -l',
        'hunspell -l',
    );
}

This is also reflected in libtest-spelling-perl's recommendations:

Recommends: spell | aspell | ispell | hunspell

So having "spell" installed seems what made the lintian build fail.

		Regards, Axel
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