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

Lior Kaplan kaplan at debian.org
Fri Dec 1 20:37:40 CET 2006


Kevin Atkinson wrote:
> 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.

The current aspell-ar (one on aspell's site) is quite large and can leap
to performance issues. This is the reason for the rename.

The other wordlist is much smaller, but still not complete enough to
replace the the first wordlist.

In sake of the debian users, we decided to provide both packages:
aspell-ar (the small one) and aspell-ar-large.

>> 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".

Thanks. I found the problematic line there (the one we forgot to change).

Now the package works, and I'll upload soon to Debian.

-- 

Lior Kaplan
kaplan at debian.org

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