Thanks, Agustin; you're absolutely correct. I had misunderstood the original bug report (didn't read carefully enough) and thought Petter was asking about the ispell package recommending a wordlist rather than iamerican recommending wamerican.
I'll change that (and similar ones at the dictionary level) to suggests. Sorry for my haste. On Dec 23, 2007 1:27 PM, Agustin Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 16, 2007 at 09:38:50PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > [David Coe] > > > I'll think about this, but ispell requires a wordlist in order for > > > its "lookup" command to work. It's not a strict requirement for the > > > rest of ispell's functionality, which is why the wordlist packages > > > are recommends and not depends. > > > > Oh. Did not know this. Perhaps it is useful in Debian Edu after > > all. :) > > The reason why wamerican is standard is that an american basic wordlist has > been part of most UNIX systems for years and, after the reasoning about > the wamerican standard priority, former wenglish maintainer considered that > a wordlist should always be part of a basic system. That might make > wamerican useful in Debian Edu. > > Regarding the Recommends/Suggests, all other ispell dicts just suggest the > related wordlist, after dict-common policy, I do not see why things should > be different for iamerican and wamerican. ispell package however, should > recommend a wordlist for the reasons pointed out by David. > > I think that the extra importance of wamerican is better addressed by > keeping its standard priority and the generic recommendadion of a wordlist > by ispell than by forcing it be an iamerican recommends. > > So, I am for using suggests for iamerican and ibritish, and keeping the > generic recommends in the ispell package. > > -- > Agustin > > > -- David Coe +1 410 505 4468 home/office/cell, depending on where I am -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
