Re: virtual package 'ispell-dictionary'

[Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>]

On Fri, 30 Jul 1999, Julian Gilbey wrote:

> > I don't know how important this is, but there's a de-facto 
> > virtual package, ispell-dictionary, in use for quite some 
> > time by the ispell and i* dictionary packages, but not 
> > listed in virtual-package-names-list.text
> 
> There's a rejected proposal to implement this.  See if you can find it
> (on http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/pa/ldebian-policy.html if I remember
> correctly), resurrect it and second it.  It'll probably then pass.

Yes it's bug #8221.

Apparently you said the "ispell packages working together" was enough and
Manoj retitled the bug into "rejected".

I think adding ispell-dictionary to the list would not make harm anyway,
and would make happy a lot of people, and would avoid useless discussions
about ispell-dictionary being an "approved" virtual package name or not.
(For example, it would avoid Bug#8221 against ispell :-).

What exactly is required to "resurrect" a proposal? Is it required to wait
some amount of time since it was rejected?

Thanks.

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