Bug#487732: O: ispell (or maybe RM: ispell?)

[Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org>]

Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
> How about removing this obsolete package instead of just orphaning it? I 
> say "obsolete" because it didn't adapt to the fact that UTF-8 is the 
> preferred character encoding nowadays, and better replacements exist 
> (e.g., "aspell -i"). See also #469016.

the version of ispell in debian is quite outdated (3.1.20.0 vs. 3.3.02),
afaik ispell handles now UTF-8 properly. however..

> Yes, I know about the huge list of reverse dependencies.

...ack, we should just remove ispell right after lenny.

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