help identifying package for /usr/share/dict
Hi Debian-user,
I was referred here by reportbug, which says
"If you don't know what package the bug is in, please contact
debian-user@lists.debian.org for assistance."
I have a bug to report (see emails below) against /usr/share/dict but
I'm unable to identify the specific Debian package responsible for
this file. I looked at the source for wamerican and miscfiles and
there's no obvious route from that source to the actual dict file.
Please advise.
yours truly,
James P.
> From: Geoff Kuenning <geoff@cs.hmc.edu>
> To: powellj@pdx.edu
> Subject: Re: Ispell bug: mystery word 'ans' (common misspelling of 'and') in words
> Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2018 19:48:51 -0700
>
> I don't see it in my master dictionaries. Apparently it's crept
> into the Debian dictionary. "ANS" is a common acronym but I
> couldn't find a definition for it as a word. So I agree that it
> shouldn't be there, but unfortunately I don't know who the Debian
> maintainers are.
>
> > (This may be an emacs bug)
> >
> > System: linux
> > Version: Other
> > Conditions:
> >
> >
> > Description:
> > The words file in /usr/share/dict (which you may not maintain,
> > but I'm
> > at a loss to find the maintainer) in Debian 9 includes the
> > mystery
> > word 'ans'. This is a common misspelling of 'and' and isn't in
> > my
> > English dictionary, so I'll agitate for its removal.
> >
> > Thank you for your work on ispell.
> >
>
> --
> Geoff Kuenning geoff@cs.hmc.edu
> http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~geoff/
>
> XML: verbose obfuscation in the service of simple key-value pairs.
--
James E. Powell, MS
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Applied Physics PhD Candidate
Department of Physics
Portland State University
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