Public bug reported:

Hunspell is not used when myspell is not install, enchant falls back to
inferior aspell.

I have installed on Ubuntu (Natty) the following packages:
libenchant1c2a                        1.6.0-1 
aspell                                0.60.6-4ubuntu1
hunspell                              1.2.11-1ubuntu1
and a series of dictionaries but no package with the myspell executable.

When using e.g. gedit that uses enchant, enchant will use aspell instead of
hunspell. I have verified this by running both hunspell and aspell manually on
the same document. The false positives that I see in gedit are indeed from
aspell.

I did not use a custom .enchant file, just the normal installation that would
use:
  *:myspell,aspell,ispell
So I would expect hunspell and not aspell.

How can this be solved without having to install myspell executable?

I consider this a major bug because many many users might expect that they are
using a very recent and acurate spell check from hunspell but are actually
thrown back to inferior checking with aspell.

Can enchant bugs be linked to upstream bugzilla bugs in
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/bugtrackers/abi-bugs ?

** Affects: enchant (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Bug watch added: AbiSource bug tracker #13082
   http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13082

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