Greetings, The following package needs both sponsoring and a freeze exception:
http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/r/rus-ispell/rus-ispell_0.99g5-7.dsc To put the bug in context, some recent changes in the way some building tools work under encodings other than the C locale have resulted in a partially broken build. The result are 3 Russian dictionaries (ispell/aspell/myspell) that are mostly useless for everyday usage. To give you a sense of scale of the problem, this is the same as if English dictionaries were produced from a source package called eng-ispell, from which American and British spelling variants would be generated using some build script magic. Now, imagine a situation where, because of some changes in basic binary tools (tr, grep, uniq), the build targets would produce dictionaries that only included the British spelling, in a situation where the American spelling is obviously the most widespread worldwide. This is precisely the situation that currently plagues the Russian dictionaries. There is essentially two spelling variants for many Russian words, one with a specific vowel accented (traditional spelling, mostly used by academicians, these days) and a contemporary form with that same vowel unaccented. During the last few months, debian/rules scripts that had worked just fine as-is for ages suddenly started producing dictionaries that only included the traditional variant, in a context where the modern variant is obviously more useful in contemporary usage. This issue had gone mostly unnoticed for several months, since I myself prefer to use the traditional spelling. It took the work of several contributors to find a clean way of fixing this and we just barely got around finding a method that produces usable dictionaries in a repeatable way, which is how this request came so close to the Lenny release. Martin-Éric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
