I uploaded an NMU for this package by using the attached patch (taken from Agustin's patch but leaving the fix for #500618 (I hesitated a little as #500618 is "severity: important" but better not being too invasive...).
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diff -Nru igerman98-20091006.old/debian/changelog
igerman98-20091006/debian/changelog
--- igerman98-20091006.old/debian/changelog 2010-03-16 09:07:45.000000000
+0100
+++ igerman98-20091006/debian/changelog 2010-03-16 09:15:03.000000000 +0100
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+igerman98 (20091006-4.1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * Non-maintainer upload.
+ * debian/ingerman.config.in:
+ - Fix compat file name to ngerman.compat (Closes: #568741).
+ Thanks to Agustin Martin <agmar...@debian.org> for the patch
+
+ -- Christian Perrier <bubu...@debian.org> Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:15:03 +0100
+
igerman98 (20091006-4) unstable; urgency=low
* remove de-XX.{dic,aff} symlinks in /usr/share/hunspell (closes: #566802)
diff -Nru igerman98-20091006.old/debian/ingerman.config.in
igerman98-20091006/debian/ingerman.config.in
--- igerman98-20091006.old/debian/ingerman.config.in 2010-03-16
09:07:45.000000000 +0100
+++ igerman98-20091006/debian/ingerman.config.in 2010-03-16
09:35:34.000000000 +0100
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
#DEBHELPER#
if ( $ARGV[0] eq "reconfigure" ){
- my $flag_file = "/var/lib/ispell/ingerman.compat";
+ my $flag_file = "/var/lib/ispell/ngerman.compat";
open (REC_FLAG,"> $flag_file")
or die "Could not open $flag_file for writing\n";
print REC_FLAG "0";
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