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

[Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org>]

Agustin Martin wrote:
> IIRC, none of aspell or hunspell can handle pseudo-charsets like 'a or TeX
> explicit chars \'a, \'{a}, while ispell can, if the aff file has  them
> declared, so there is no full replacement for ispell.

[could probably sound harsh, but isn't ment as such] i suggest to
discuss that (on dict-common-dev) after lenny has been released,
if/how/when etc. a removal will happen (or not).

> Instead of removing ispell I would consider making ispell and ispell dicts
> priority extra instead of optional. Note that iamerican, ispell and ibritish
> have now the wrong standard priority (all them should already be optional).
> You sent the ITA just after my message, so I re-add, in case you missed it

I saw it, yes, and will correct the priorities accordingly in the next
upload, happening in next 72 hours.

> Apart from looking at the policy document above, you should subscribe to the
> dictionaries-common-dev mailing list
> 
>     http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/dict-common-dev/

just done :)

> That is the development discussion on dictionaries-common for Debian. Is a
> very low traffic list, so should not be a problem to your mailbox.
> 
> Welcome to spellchecking,

thanks :)

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