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Bug#908237: libnumbertext-tools: "spellout" is not in $PATH and looks for data in the wrong places



Hi,

On Fri, Sep 07, 2018 at 11:44:08PM +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 07, 2018 at 05:47:54PM +0100, Stephane Chazelas wrote:
> > The tool is meant to be invoked by the end user, but is not
> > located in a directory in $PATH. I would expect it to go in
> > /usr/bin (and have a corresponding man page in
> > /usr/share/man/man1).

Ah, now I remember why it's not in /usr/bin. I found "spellout" to be
too generic for /usr/bin: "Spellout what? Where? On the console? in
what form? Spell out some thingy over audio for blind people? Something
else?" 

(And upstream doesn't have a manpage.)

Regards,
 
Rene


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