Package: aspell-de
Version: 20160407-1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
aspell-de installs /usr/lib/aspell/de_DE.alias, but not the files
/usr/lib/aspell/{deutsch,german}.alias, which some tools seem to expect.
I found this bug when emacs' flyspell spellchecker couldn't find the
german dictionary (saying 'Error: The file "/usr/lib/aspell/german" can
not be opened for reading.""), and was tempted to report a bug against
emacs. But looking at the other language packages of aspell I found
that they all install files named after the native and english name of
the language (I checked aspell-pl, aspell-es, and aspell-fr). So I
assume these files are missing for german, and other tools using aspell
will fail to provide spellchecking as well.
In an installation of Arch Linux that I could check
/usr/lib/aspell/german.alist and .../deutsch.alist exist, and have the
same (one-line) content as .../de_DE.alist.
Regards,
Martin Küttler
-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.7.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages aspell-de depends on:
ii aspell 0.60.7~20110707-3+b1
ii dictionaries-common 1.27.1
aspell-de recommends no packages.
aspell-de suggests no packages.
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