[Dict-common-dev] Re: Debian transition to Aspell 0.60

[Marcin Owsiany]

On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 10:16:51AM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 03:34:31PM +0100, Marcin Owsiany wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 01:40:47AM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote:
> > [...]
> > > Also, any packages depending
> > > on aspell-dictionary will unfortunately have to be updated to use
> > > aspell6-dictionary instead.  These packages are: abiword-common,
> > > sylpheed, sylpheed-claws, ekg, ekg2.
> > 
> > Sorry for the long delay.
> > 
> > ekg and ekg2 are in:
> > http://people.debian.org/~porridge/aspell-transition/
> > 
> > Two things:
> > 
> >  1) I have decided to keep:
> >  
> >  Suggests: aspell-pl | aspell6-dictionary, sms-pl
> >  
> >  Rather than the suggested:
> >  
> >  Suggests: aspell-pl, sms-pl
> >  
> >  Because I think that the latter might cause some package management
> >  tools to nag the user to install aspell-pl even if she already
> >  installed some other dictionary. Just a theory, though, not tested.
> 
> Note that libaspell15, which ekg links against, already Recommends:
> aspell-en | aspell6-dictionary.  I'd think that relationship would
> override the aspell-pl | aspell6-dictionary one, so the user would get
> aspell-en by default and probably not notice aspell-pl at all.

Hm, right.. I didn't pay attention to the fact that libaspell15's
relationship was stronger.

> It may make more sense to just use the Suggests: aspell-pl, ...

I don't think that would be right, since there are people using ekg who
don't speak polish, but might want to use another dictionary.  I need to
think of it some more and look closer at how the support actually works
in ekg.

> >  2) If possible, please wait with the upload until ekg 1:1.5+20050212-1
> >  (uploaded today, urgency=medium, so that should last about six days
> >  IIRC) enters testing. Iff you want to do the upload earlier, then
> >  please let me know, and I'll provide 1:1.5+20050212-2 with increased
> >  urgency.
> 
> Since ekg only has a weak relationship (Suggests) on
> aspell-dictionary/aspell6-dictionary, the upload of aspell 0.60
> shouldn't have any effect on ekg's candidancy for testing, provided
> you've linked against the libaspell15 currently in testing.

>From your first mail I understood that all packages listed in
http://people.debian.org/~pyro/pending/ASPELL_TRANSITION_STATUS would be
uploaded together. Since ekg would be one of them, this would reset its
wait time to 10 days, which is what I'm trying to avoid.

Marcin
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