Bug#41741: consider update-ispell-hash

[David Coe <david.coe@someotherplace.org>]

Package: ispell
Version: 3.1.20-0.6
Severity: wishlist

I'm the new (prospective) ispell package maintainer, and I don't 
want to forget about this suggestion...
(copied from debian-devel)

To: Debian Development Mailing List <debian-devel@lists.debian.org> 
     Subject: update-ispell-hash 
     From: Piotr Roszatycki <dexter@fnet.pl> 
     Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 16:09:04 +0200 (CEST) 

I maintain ipolish package. My dictionary is really huge. Of course
common user doesn't need all words in dictionary (i.e. bilogical terms).
Then I prepared some new mechanizm called update-ispell-hash.

/usr/lib/ispell/polish.hash is a symlink to /var/lib/ispell/polish.hash
The second file is builded from "subdictionaries"
(/usr/lib/ispell/dict/*
folder). Subdictionaries have a description in polish.info file.
Format:

Source: polish
Affix: polish.aff
Hash: polish.hash

Dictionary: A
Default: yes
Description: Base dictionary
 blah blah blah
 
Dictionary: B
Default: no
Descripion: Rare words
 blah blah blah
 blah blah blah
 
Dictionary: biology
Default: no
Description: Biology

[....]

I've wroten my script in perl and it is really easy to adaptate for
other ispell dictionaries. If you are interested in this tool,
please look at ipolish (= 1.0.990527-2).
This script could be a part of ispell package..

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Piotr "Dexter" Roszatycki
mailto:dexter@fnet.pl
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David Coe