I've finally decided to put into motion a transition to Aspell 0.60 in Debian. Aspell 0.60 is a major release in terms of functionality but is a relatively minor change from a packaging perspective. In particular, the libaspell soname has not changed, so no software using the library will need to be rebuilt. This should be a relatively painless transition, so I do not believe it will pose a major problem to sarge.
The one hurdle in the way is the binary format of the dictionaries has incompatibly changed again. Thus, the old dictionaries compiled with 0.50 will not work and must be rebuilt. To make this transition as painless as possible, I propose updating each dictionary as follows: * Change the build-depends to aspell-bin (>> 0.60) * Change the provides from aspell-dictionary to aspell6-dictionary. Since the new libaspell15 will no longer read the old dictionaries, it will conflict with "aspell-dictionary" while recommending "aspell6-dictionary". This will force any of the old dictionaries that provide aspell-dictionary to be removed. 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. You may find the new aspell packages available at: http://people.debian.org/~pyro/pending/ Please test building dictionaries with the new packages and let me know if you have any problems. Also, if you find any flaws in my proposal, please let me know. I'm going on a pseudo-vacation for the next two weeks and would really like to upload the new packages when I return. I'd appreciate it if someone would setup a staging area to collect all of the newly built dictionaries so that they can all be uploaded together. Please coordinate on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list, unless of course Agustin objects. ;) -- Society is never going to make any progress until we all learn to pretend to like each other. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
