Re: emacs ispell -- request for bug confirmation

["John M. Rulnick" <rulnick@beaver.wpi.edu>]

I'd appreciate if someone could help confirm/deny two possible bugs.
Regarding emacs and ispell (and iamerican) for Debian 1.3: 

- if iamerican is not installed, using ispell under emacs incorrectly
yields an error message indicating that 'ispell -v' does not output
it's version line (this appears to be a bug in ispell.el, but I'd like
to get an independent confirmation before submitting a bug report);

- on a clean Debian 1.3 install, 'dpkg -i ispell_3.1.20-0.1.deb'
followed by 'dpkg -i iamerican_3.1.20-0.1.deb' yields a failed
iamerican installation:

  Setting up iamerican (3.1.20-0.1) ...
  Please wait while I search for ispell dictionaries...
  There is only one installed dictionary - american.
  Making american the default ispell dictionary...update-alternatives:
  unable to install /etc/alternatives/ispell-dictionary.hash.dpkg-tmp as
  /etc/alternatives/ispell-dictionary.hash
  dpkg: error processing iamerican (--install):
   subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
  Errors were encountered while processing:
   iamerican

This appears to be a problem with the postinst script (using
update-alternatives).  Again, I'd appreciate independent confirmation
before I submit any kind of bug report.

Thank you.

John

------- Start of forwarded message -------
Date: 23 Jun 1997 01:04:40 -0400
From: "John M. Rulnick" <rulnick@beaver.wpi.edu>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: emacs ispell 
Reply-to: John M. Rulnick <rulnick@ece.wpi.edu>

Using emacs_19.34-11.deb with ispell_3.1.18-11.deb or
ispell_3.1.20-0.1.deb, attempting to use any ispell function (for
example, M-$) within emacs, I get the message

  "ispell did not output version line"

and the command fails.  Strange.  So I'd be grateful to anyone who can
clue me in to what's wrong.  I'm running Debian 1.3 and Linux 2.1.43.

Thanks.

John

P.S. Note that 'ispell -v' from the command line yields

  @(#) International Ispell Version 3.1.20 10/10/95
  @(#) Copyright (c), 1983, by Pace Willisson
  @(#) International version Copyright (c) 1987, 1988, 1990-1995,
  [etc.]
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