On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 06:52:50PM +0100, Mathieu Roy wrote: > >Hi, thanks for the info, > > > >Seems that there is some confusion about what "wordlist" means > >here. It > >stands for plain list of plain words like that provided by > >wfrench, that > >is, something that can be used by "look" and friends. > > > >aspell-fr is not a wordlist but a spellchecking dictionary to be > >used by > >aspell and no symlink from /usr/share/dict/words is expected to it. > > > >Regards, > > Hi Agustin,
Hi, > So does that mean that actually it's just a matter of installing > this wfrench? Yes. I would also install wamerican. > I dont think I ever specifically did so on most > install I did but never hit that issue. Is that by any chance > something done by the debian-installer? AFAIK debian-installer should install at least a wordlist if available for given locale and I think that also wamerican standard package. > Shouldn't dictionaries-common at least make sure, when installed, > that it point to a real words dictionary, have a dpkg Depends: (or > at least Recommends:) on some sort of string like wordlist that > wamerican, wfrench etc should have as Provides:. Yeah, I guess it > may be a lot of packages to update for a rarely hit bug. But it > would still be a cheap change :-) > (there is already this works-with::dictionary tag) wamerican standard package should be installed by default in most systems. However you can perfectly decide that you want only aspell and no wordlist at all, that is why there is no explicit dependency. About recommends we considered that, since wamerican is standard, no further suggest/recommends is needed. > Or maybe it's just debootstrap that could get at least wamerican, > since it's supposed to build up a proper system more or less similar > to debian-installer? I do not think they are that similar. AFAIK debootstrap builds a very minimal system, so minimal that wamerican was not installed. Also, locales are not set and I'd expect some other differences. People using debootstrap is expected to install additional stuff when needed. -- Agustin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
