[Dict-common-dev] Re: Re. aspell Fixes pending upload

[Agustín Martín Domingo]

Brian Nelson wrote:
> 
> FYI, I've been doing some testing with producing dictionaries with the
> new Aspell.  The maintainer interface for aspell dictionary creation has
> not changed, though the format of the output has.  Also, I think the way
> that Aspell detects which dictionary to use has changed.  The current
> method is described here:
> 
> http://savannah.gnu.org/download/aspell/manual/user/5_Working.html#SECTION00660000000000000000
> 
> The dictionaries created with the new Aspell can be used with the
> --master option; however, the --lang option fails to work unless a
> .multi file is created, as far as I can tell.
> 

Thanks for the info. Making all aspell dicts to provide a .multi file is 
probably a good choice.

> Since every aspell-dictionary package currently in Debian will not work
> with the new Aspell, I think it's appropriate for the new Aspell to
> conflict with <= the current version of every aspell-dictionary package,
> to ensure a smooth transition from the packages in Woody.  Do you agree?
> 
To make it really smooth I am afraid yes. Just making the dicts depend 
on aspell (>= 0.50) is not enough since people might try using older dicts.

P.D. aspell already compiled on hppa. The problem now is in mips/mipsel 
where aspell did never compile due to an internal compiler error, but a 
different problem than in hppa. For more details, see

http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.php?&pkg=aspell&ver=0.33.7.1-8&arch=mips&stamp=1022677201&file=log&as=raw
http://lists.debian.org/debian-gcc/2001/debian-gcc-200109/msg00006.html

This link seems to have also the same info, but I cannot reach it now:

http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-prs/2001-09/msg00102.html

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