Re: ispell 3.3.02 uploaded to experimental
- To: Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org>
- Cc: "Agustin Martin Domingo (br.ispell dictionaries-common eo-spell espa-nol ibrazilian iesperanto ifaroese igalician-minimos iportuguese ispanish ispell-fo ispell-gl ispell.pt itagalog)" <agmartin@debian.org>, "Alastair McKinstry (igaelic iirish imanx)" <mckinstry@debian.org>, "Antonio Radici (mutt)" <antonio@dyne.org>, "Anton Zinoviev (bgoffice)" <zinoviev@debian.org>, "Atsuhito KOHDA (texmacs)" <kohda@debian.org>, "Colin Watson (trn4)" <cjwatson@debian.org>, "Cord Beermann (nn)" <cord@debian.org>, "Damyan Ivanov (ibulgarian)" <dmn@debian.org>, "Debian GNOME Maintainers (balsa)" <pkg-gnome-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>, "Debian KDE Extras Team (kile)" <pkg-kde-extras@lists.alioth.debian.org>, "Debian Med Packaging Team (gnumed-client)" <debian-med-packaging@lists.alioth.debian.org>, "Debian Perl Group (libdata-password-perl liblingua-ispell-perl)" <pkg-perl-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>, "Debian QA Group (ifrench ihungarian magyarispell)" <packages@qa.debian.org>, "Debian Qt/KDE Maintainers (kate)" <debian-qt-kde@lists.debian.org>, "Debian Xfce Maintainers (xfce4-dict)" <pkg-xfce-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>, "Francesco Paolo Lovergine (iitalian)" <frankie@debian.org>, "Giacomo Catenazzi (spell)" <cate@debian.org>, "Harshula Jayasuriya (m17n-db m17n-lib)" <harshula@gmail.com>, "Jakub Wilk (python-gamera.toolkits.ocr)" <jwilk@debian.org>, "Jeremiah C. Foster (iswedish swedish)" <jeremiah@jeremiahfoster.com>, "Jeroen van Wolffelaar (squirrelmail)" <jeroen@wolffelaar.nl>, "J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) (spellutils)" <jdassen@debian.org>, "Jonas Smedegaard (dsdo idanish)" <dr@jones.dk>, "Jordi Mallach (icatalan ispellcat)" <jordi@debian.org>, "Kalle Kivimaa (ifinnish ifinnish-large ifinnish-small ispell-fi)" <killer@debian.org>, "Kęstutis Biliūnas (ilithuanian ispell-lt)" <kebil@kaunas.init.lt>, "Lionel Elie Mamane (ifrench-gut)" <lmamane@debian.org>, "Magnus Holmgren (prayer)" <holmgren@debian.org>, "Marco d'Itri (tin)" <md@linux.it>, "Matthew Vernon (trn)" <matthew@debian.org>, "Miriam Ruiz (treeline)" <little_miry@yahoo.es>, "Patrick Matthäi (otrs2)" <pmatthaei@debian.org>, "Petr Čech (iczech ispell-czech)" <cech@debian.org>, "Roland Rosenfeld (ding hkgerman igerman98 ingerman iogerman iswiss)" <roland@debian.org>, "Stefan Hornburg (Racke) (sqwebmail)" <racke@linuxia.de>, "Tatsuya Kinoshita (lookup-el)" <tats@debian.org>, "Thijs Kinkhorst (dutch idutch)" <thijs@debian.org>, "Timo Jyrinki (tmispell-voikko)" <timo@debian.org>, "Tollef Fog Heen (inorwegian norwegian)" <tfheen@debian.org>, "Yven Johannes Leist (tk-brief)" <leist@beldesign.de>, "Євгеній Мещеряков (ispell-uk iukrainian)" <eugen@debian.org>
- Subject: Re: ispell 3.3.02 uploaded to experimental
- From: Martin-Éric Racine <q-funk@iki.fi>
- Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 17:45:25 +0200
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2011/3/13 Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org>:
> Hi
>
> I uploaded new, but already 6 years old, upstream version of ispell to
> experimental yesterday. Your package either provides ispell-dictionary,
> or depends/recommends/suggests/build-depends on ispell, and I'd be glad
> if you could spend some time to check if the new version works with your
> package.
>
> The dictionaries generated by old version of ispell are not compatible
> with the new one, thus all ispell-dictionaries need to be rebuild. If
> you are a maintainer of such a dictionary package, please check whether
> the dictionary rebuilds fine with the new ispell. If your dictionary
> package doesn't use the ispell-autobuildhash method, it will need to be
> re-uploaded (with Build-Depends and Depends set to ispell >= 3.3.02)
> when new ispell hits unstable.
>
> I'm thinking of uploading the new version to unstable in a week or two
> (i.e. 20th or 26th of March). Please report any issues through BTS.
At the risk of sounding silly, I really have to ask:
Why does Debian even bother with ispell anymore, considering that
almost everything out there has been converted to use aspell or
myspell instead of ispell, plus the FSF considers aspell as the only
GNU -supported spell checker?
Martin-Éric
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