Bug#487732: Object to removing ispell without an alternative with -l
I saw the discussion about removing ispell go past a while back and didn't
think much about it, but today I wrote a check for one of my packages to
spell-check the documentation and discovered that ispell is the only
easily usable spell-checker in Debian currently for this application.
The interface I want is the ispell -l interface, which prints the
misspelled words to standard output. The alternatives that I know of are
aspell and hunspell.
aspell doesn't support -l, only the more complex -a interface, unless I'm
missing something in its documentation.
hunspell doesn't support contractions (see Bug#491638).
Given that, I think keeping ispell for right now is better than the
alternatives, although I'd happy use one of the alternatives if they
properly supported -l.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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