tag -1 + patch thanks Attached you find the upstream patch prepared for Debian. It would be great, it this could go into buster...
Greetings Roland
From: Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org> Bug: https://debbugs.gnu.org/33493 Bug-Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/916227 Subject: New Version of Hunspell (1.7.0-1) brakes ispell.el Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2018 18:10:47 +0200 --- a/lisp/textmodes/ispell.el +++ b/lisp/textmodes/ispell.el @@ -1111,7 +1111,12 @@ dictionary from that list was found." null-device t nil - "-D") + ;; Hunspell 1.7.0 (and later?) won't + ;; show LOADED DICTIONARY unless + ;; there's at least one file argument + ;; on the command line. So we feed + ;; it with the null device. + "-D" null-device) (buffer-string)) "[\n\r]+" t))
