Package: dictionaries-common Version: 0.25.12 Followup-For: Bug #314714 I have a similar problem: with no ispell dictionaries installed, dpkg-reconfigure dictionaries-common gives me trouble. It doesn't provide a nonsensical empty choice, but lists my aspell dictionaries as language choices; then, whatever I choose, it says it's using manual symlinks, and then gives an error[1] and dies. Afterwards, I find that Emacs's .elc files have been deleted and not re-created, so ispell-mode stops working. Also, /usr/dict/words fails to point at anything.
Using select-default-ispell manually sorts things out. [1]I'm sorry I don't have a record of exactly what the error is, but having coaxed my system back into a working state manually I'm loth to find out by running dpkg-reconfigure again. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.10 Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages dictionaries-common depends on: ii debconf 1.4.30.13 Debian configuration management sy ii perl 5.8.4-8 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction -- debconf information: dictionaries-common/invalid_debconf_value: dictionaries-common/selecting_ispell_wordlist_default: * dictionaries-common/default-ispell: ~manual~ (I set symlinks manually) * dictionaries-common/default-wordlist: british (British English) dictionaries-common/ispell-autobuildhash-message: dictionaries-common/old_wordlist_link: true dictionaries-common/move_old_usr_dict: true dictionaries-common/remove_old_usr_dict_link: false -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
