retitle 476677 Upstream development abandoned - update (and package hunspell-hu)
thanks

[ NB: I am mot the maintainer of myspell-hu ]

Hi,

andrasfor...@netscape.net wrote:
> As I know
> the further upstream development of this package (at its current version
> 0.99.4) has been abandoned.

Yep.

> In
> development its successor is the “magyar ispell”, which is basically an
> extended version of myspell-hu with some new grammatical features making it
> incompatible with the original format. Currently its latest version is 1.3 and
> can be found at ‘magyarispell.sourceforge.net’.

Which actually is this source package ;-)

The maintainer just needs to update his package...

Gyorgy, will that happen?
I can NMU if you wish...

> It would be
> nice to have this living upstream dictionary as an official debian package
> (probably with the name ‘hunspell-hu’) as it is the native format of 
> hunspell, the

.. and with the changes for hunspell ...

> currently widely used spell checker program.

Yes.

> Basically this is a request for this new package.

OpenOffice.org 3.0.1 updated their internal dictionary with the hunspell
one, but I could package it from there in emergency, but it of course
would (also for the rest) better to continue packaging it from here,

Regards,

Rene



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