[ sorry for the late answer ] Hi,
On Fri, Jan 04, 2013 at 03:49:34PM +0100, Luca Capello wrote: > On Thu, 27 Dec 2012 10:35:55 +0100, Rene Engelhard wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 03:08:15AM +0100, Luca Capello wrote: > >> I completely switched to hunspell and thus I was quite surprised that it > >> did not worked in emacs-snapshot. The attached patches do the trick: > > [ snip ] > >> I do not think we are still in time for wheezy, in case feel free to ask > >> and I can NMU and then asked to the RM. > > > > I agree. Let's do that after wheezy. > > This means that (at least) Emacs users can not spellcheck using > hunspell-en-us on wheezy. After having thought a bit more about it, I > think this deserves a wheezy unblock, since it is a packaging bug. I disagree. It's a feature, not a bug. But if you think it warrants an unblock, feel free; I am not going to deal with the RT wrt that ;-) > >> BTW, I was also quite surprised to see that we still have a > >> myspell-en-us binary from openoffice.org-dictionaries, which actually > >> ships a more recent dictionary. > > > > "More recent" in version/date or in that it also uses hunspell-only > > features? The latter would be a bug and that should be fixed *NOT* by > > upgrading that package but removing it (I consider the dictionary > > shipped on the hunspell site itself - which is this one - canonical; > > as obsolete it might be) > > "More recent" in version/date: 2008-12-18 vs. 2007-08-29, both with > 'nemeth AT OO.o' as the last committer. Yeah, that 2008-12-18 is what LibreOffice ships. (From the hunspell author.) > The 'Dictionaries' link at <http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/> redirects > to <http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Dictionaries>, where the > en_US version hosted on OO.o is even older (2006-02-07). http://sourceforge.net/projects/hunspell. Look at Files -> Spelling Dictionaries -> en_US. That's what we use currently. > And indeed there is a new Hunspell dictionary at: > > <http://downloads.sourceforge.net/wordlist/hunspell-en_US-7.1-0.zip> > > IMHO the Debian hunspell-en-us package should ship this latter version. I am not sure I consider some random dictionary from somwhere which is mentioned in a ancient cipy in OOo(!) but not LO a canonical place. Maybe Lazlo should be asked... Especially since the LO copy has: Other fixes: OOo Issue 48060 - add numbers with affixes by COMPOUNDRULE (1st, 111th, 1990s etc.) New REP items (better suggestions for accented words and a few mistakes) OOo Issue 63541 - remove *dessicated, *dessication (ok, maybe those from sf don't have them either, but...) > In the meantime, I uses hunspell-en-us everyday: thus, even if I am not > a native speaker, I care about it. I can take over maintenance, with > the following roadmap: > > - move the sources to collab-maint on git.d.o > - check with the RM if one or both the following points could get a > wheezy unblock > - fix this bug > - upgrade to the last Kevin Atkinson's version > - ask to debian-l10n-english@ mailing list if they are interested in > co-maintenance > > Is that fine for you? I am not sure about the Kevin Atkinson part. Regards, Rene -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
