[Debian-arabic-packages] The future of aspell-ar package

[Mohammed Sameer]

On Sat, Oct 07, 2006 at 11:52:40PM +0200, Lior Kaplan wrote:
> Mohammed Sameer wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 07, 2006 at 07:03:45PM +0200, Lior Kaplan wrote:
> >> Mohammed Sameer wrote:
> >>>>>>> 3. There's an option to package both.
> >>>>>> I don't think so with out seeing more work done on the large dictionary.
> >>>>>> Unless someone asks for this directly.
> >>>>> well, Considering that mine and the one by google contain errors but the one by
> >>>>> google has a lot of words and cover the language better. I guess we should package
> >>>>> their work ?
> >>>> Fine. I think I would package the Google list as aspell-ar-large and let
> >>>> the users decide. Since the it's such a large list it will slow most
> >>>> applications that use this list.
> >>>>
> >>> I've noticed that aspell is a bit slow. OpenOffice also suffers a 90 (or was it 200) MB
> >>> memory increase when it loads that list (After converting it to the myspell format).
> >>>
> >>> I'd like to help with packaging this one. Will check it tonight if we agree on packaging
> >>> it.
> >> Start by opening an ITP for it. The best way would be to build a package
> >> and import it to the subverion for reviews.
> >>
> >> Let me know when you have the base, and I'll guide you through the
> >> import part.
> >>
> > 
> > I did already. It was CC'ed to this list.
> 
> Great.
> 
> > Now there's something: The package version is 1.2-0
> > I don't think it's possible to create a debian package with the version 1.2-0-1
> > Maybe we should use 1.2+0-1 ? I'm not really sure.
> > 
> > What do you think ??
> 
> I thought the same, and was wrong. See #389644.
> 
> Notice the versions of our packages:
> http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=Debian+Arabic

I think I'm missing something.
dpkg-buildpkg insists on building a native package because of the dash "-"

Here's the debian subdir
http://home.foolab.org/files/aspell-ar-large-debian.tgz

Maybe I did something wrong ??

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