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

[Kevin Atkinson]

On Fri, 1 Dec 2006, Lior Kaplan wrote:

> 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.

I would like to know more info on this.  Hopefully my messages will get 
through to debian-arabic-packages so some other people can comment on it.