Bug#435004: vim doesn't find .spl files...

[James Vega]

On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 01:26:36PM +0200, Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard wrote:
> Right after the installation of vim-spellfiles-fr, I ran vim, typed in
> :set spell spelllang=fr
> and got the message 'Cannot find word list "fr.latin1.spl" or 
> "fr.ascii.spl"'.
>
> For the moment, I have it working with a symlink to 
> /usr/share/vim/addons/spell in my ~/.vim directory, but I'm sure there's a 
> better solution.

These packages are out of date.  They're from when we initially uploaded
vim7 to the archive and we're now up to vim7.1.  This is partially due
to them being a beast to build, the packaging being in bad shape, and
Vim shipping with a plugin that should automatically download the
spellfiles you need if you set 'spelllang' to a language it doesn't
currently have spellfiles for.

Your solution is approximately what would be done, if/when the packaging
is updated and re-uploaded, except that it would ideally be handled by
vim-addons from the vim-addon-manager package.

The reason you saw this behavior is because the last upload of the Vim
package removed /usr/share/vim/addons from the default 'runtimepath'
setting.  I accidentally uploaded the Vim package before a NEWS entry
had been included to point this out (the next upload will have the NEWS
entry).

James
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