Package: src:scowl Version: 2017.01.22-1 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer,
The hunspell-en-us package in Debian is outdated. I first took it from the hunspell site, but that never was updated. libreoffice-dictionaries has a newer en_US.dic/.aff which we don't package. Moreover, it contains (amongst others) en_AU and en_CA. Those three are derived from scowl: ene@frodo:~/data/Debian/Pakete/LibreOffice/libreoffice-dictionaries/libreoffice-dictionaries/dictionaries/en$ cat README_en_US.txt en_US Hunspell Dictionary Version 2017.01.22 Sun Jan 22 17:22:40 2017 -0500 [0c64f5c] http://wordlist.sourceforge.net README file for English Hunspell dictionaries derived from SCOWL. These dictionaries are created using the speller/make-hunspell-dict script in SCOWL. The following dictionaries are available: en_US (American) en_CA (Canadian) en_GB-ise (British with "ise" spelling) en_GB-ize (British with "ize" spelling) en_AU (Australian) en_US-large en_CA-large en_GB-large (with both "ise" and "ize" spelling) en_AU-large The normal (non-large) dictionaries correspond to SCOWL size 60 and, to encourage consistent spelling, generally only include one spelling variant for a word. The large dictionaries correspond to SCOWL size 70 and may include multiple spelling for a word when both variants are considered almost equal. The larger dictionaries however (1) have not been as carefully checked for errors as the normal dictionaries and thus may contain misspelled or invalid words; and (2) contain uncommon, yet valid, words that might cause problems as they are likely to be misspellings of more common words (for example, "ort" and "calender"). [...] Build Date: Sun Jan 22 17:42:42 EST 2017 Wordlist Command: mk-list --accents=strip en_US 60 As I said in various bug reports (e.g. in #878315 or in https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=795159#39), it would make sense to build them directly from scowl. When I first tried this in #795159 it wasn't possible in 2015, but with sids version it works now. So here is the report :). Will send a patch as a follow-up. Regards, Rene
