Source: scowl Hi,
I am the upstream maintainer of SCOWL. I have released a new version of the speller dictionaries (and related wordlists) created from SCOWL. New official releases of SCOWL itself will not be created for some time now as the underlying architecture has undergone a complete overhaul and it will be a while before things stabilize. I am writing to request that the Debian source package be updated to use this new dictionary release. I suggest you check out SCOWL directly from Git at https://github.com/en-wl/wordlist. You can either just check out the 'v2' branch to always get the latest version. Or, if you want to track dictionary releases you can use the associated tag created for each release. The latest one is 'rel-2026.02.25'. Your scripts will also likely need to be updated. From the README: SCOWLv2 is a complete overhaul of SCOWL and nearly everything changed. However, there is limited backward compatibility support via the mk-list script. If you used mk-list in SCOWLv1, it will produce the same results. If you created word lists by combining files in the final/ directory your scripts will need to be rewritten. Please use the word-list command of the scowl script to get the word lists you want. If you are using the word-list command please note that the variant levels have changed. The original 0 level is now levels 0-1, the original 1 variant level is now 2-4, level 2 is now 5-6, level 3 is now 7-8, and level 4 is 9. This mapping is also available in the variants_levels table in the database. I will be happy to help with this process. Kevin
