Hi Debian-user, I was referred here by reportbug, which says
"If you don't know what package the bug is in, please contact debian-user@lists.debian.org for assistance." I have a bug to report (see emails below) against /usr/share/dict but I'm unable to identify the specific Debian package responsible for this file. I looked at the source for wamerican and miscfiles and there's no obvious route from that source to the actual dict file. Please advise. yours truly, James P. > From: Geoff Kuenning <ge...@cs.hmc.edu> > To: powe...@pdx.edu > Subject: Re: Ispell bug: mystery word 'ans' (common misspelling of 'and') in > words > Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2018 19:48:51 -0700 > > I don't see it in my master dictionaries. Apparently it's crept > into the Debian dictionary. "ANS" is a common acronym but I > couldn't find a definition for it as a word. So I agree that it > shouldn't be there, but unfortunately I don't know who the Debian > maintainers are. > > > (This may be an emacs bug) > > > > System: linux > > Version: Other > > Conditions: > > > > > > Description: > > The words file in /usr/share/dict (which you may not maintain, > > but I'm > > at a loss to find the maintainer) in Debian 9 includes the > > mystery > > word 'ans'. This is a common misspelling of 'and' and isn't in > > my > > English dictionary, so I'll agitate for its removal. > > > > Thank you for your work on ispell. > > > > -- > Geoff Kuenning ge...@cs.hmc.edu > http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~geoff/ > > XML: verbose obfuscation in the service of simple key-value pairs. -- James E. Powell, MS Pronouns: he/his Applied Physics PhD Candidate Department of Physics Portland State University Home page: http://web.pdx.edu/~powellj Office: SRTC 409B Phone: +1-503-725-8515
