Re: ispell 3.3.02 uploaded to experimental
- To: q-funk@iki.fi
- Cc: Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org>, "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>, "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: Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@debian.org>
- Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 20:56:54 +0100
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- In-reply-to: <[🔎] AANLkTikCGMhDL96DeTnDeRgn40wTTOZ4q5voBUvQVL7F@mail.gmail.com> ("Martin-Éric Racine"'s message of "Sat, 19 Mar 2011 17:45:25 +0200")
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]] Martin-Éric Racine
(sorry about the huge Cc list. :-( )
| 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?
Afaik emacs for instance still defaults to using ispell, so while GNU
might have said that in some context, it's not particularly enforced.
--
Tollef Fog Heen
UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are
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