[Debian-arabic-packages] Re: [Fwd: aspell-ar-large - request for help]

[Kevin Atkinson]

On Fri, 1 Dec 2006, Lior Kaplan wrote:

> Subject: aspell-ar-large - request for help
> Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 00:16:30 +0200
> From: Lior Kaplan <kaplan at debian.org>
> To: Brian Nelson <pyro at debian.org>
> CC: Debian Arabic Packaging Team
> <debian-arabic-packages at lists.alioth.debian.org>
>
> Hi Brian,
>
> Since the last time we met, I've managed to be involved in a few aspell
> word lists. This time I've encountered with a problem I can seems to solve.
>
> We have two word lists for arabic, a small on (aspell-ar in debian) and
> a large one (comes from aspell's site, would be aspell-ar-large in debian).

Why is this?  Why are you using a different one than the official for 
aspell-ar on debian?  If there is a good reason maybe I should also use it 
for the official aspell dictionary and rename the current one.

> In order to have aspell-ar-large, we patch the makefile to produce files
> with the different name, and we manually changed the content of other
> files (*.alias, *.multi).
>
> While installing the package I get this error:
> aspell-autobuildhash: processing: ar-large [ar-large]
> Error: The file "/usr/lib/aspell/l-ar.cset" can not be opened for reading.
>
> This is when running aspell-autobuildhash (same error if I run it manually).
>
> I couldn't figure why it's still requests this file instead of
> "l-ar-large.cset".

You need to modify "l-ar-large.dat".