[Debian-hebrew-package] Re: A Message To All Debian Aspell Dictionary Maintainers

[Christoph Berg]

Re: Kevin Atkinson in <437464AE.8030708 at gnu.org>
> This is important since
> some times I make corrections to the source dictionary, because, in some
> cases the dictionary created with "make aspell" target has errors.  I try
> to inform the upstream authors of what I did, however, in some cases the
> changes don't make it back into the upstream version for one reason or
> another.

Hi Kevin,

could you put the source for the aspell dictionaries also online? The
versions distributed on the aspell site are only some kind of "meta
source". I don't think that really counts as "prefered from for
modification", and indeed patching the provided dictionaries isn't
possible in a really clean way.

I wouldn't go as far as saying that the official dictionaries are
non-free, but the source should be available in any case.

> If the reason you are generating it from source is because the official
> Aspell dictionary is not being kept up to date I ask that you consider
> also maintaining the official Aspell dictionary.

Without the source it is not easy to see if it's up to date, and which
changes were made.

Christoph
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