Bug#403619: RFP: languagetool -- rule-based language checker
Quoting Kurt Roeckx (kurt@roeckx.be):
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
>
> Package name: languagetool
> Version: 0.8.6
> Upstream Author: Daniel Naber (naber at danielnaber de)
> URL: http://www.danielnaber.de/languagetool
> License: Mostly LGPL, also some BSD, Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.0
> Description: A rule-based language checker
I think you should removed the leading article (lintian will warn
about it)
>
> This is a rule-based language checker for which a rule is defined.
> It can detect errors that a simple spell checker cannot detect e.g.
> mixing up there/their, no/now etc. It can also detect a limited
> amount of grammar mistakes.
>
> It currently has support for English, German, Polish, and Dutch, and
> limited support for French, Spanish, and Italian.
Experience shows that detailed features for evolutive stuff are not
always well maintained....so I'm wondering whether listing the
explicitely supported languages is a good idea.
Aprat from all this, I think this is something we could widely benefit
in Debian and I would even vote for a freeze exception if I had a
chance to be listened by the release managers (having such a tool in
stable would help us with the i18n server and probably could be used
byt the D-I "spellchecker" as well....both running on stable machines.
But I'm afraid it's a little bit too late..:)
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