Because the source package for aspell-en basically gets built directly out of scowl, I think it makes sense to build aspell-en directly from the scowl source package (which already generates the w{british,american,canadian}-* and hunspell-en-* packages.)
Would a patch against scowl which changed this be acceptable in principle to you as the aspell-en maintainer? [This would eventually result in scowl taking over the aspell-en binary package, but there should be no other changes.] I figured this way I could reduce the effort of maintaining scowl even further by having more than just me importing new revisions. ;-) -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com No matter how many instances of white swans we may have observed, this does not justify the conclusion that all swans are white. -- Sir Karl Popper _Logic of Scientific Discovery_