Ispell dictionary guidelines

1995-10-03 Thread Kenny MacDonald
I knocked up this text this morning, before going away for a week, as I've had some interest from people wishing to see more ispell dictionaries. I'll probably read my mail at the weekend, but I won't be sending any out until next week, probably Tuesday. I hope this is enough to let interested pe

New location for ispell-dictionary-devel.tar.gz

1995-10-03 Thread Kenny MacDonald
Since I cannot get through to ftp.debian.org this morning, I've put the ispell-dictionary-devel.tar.gz file up for anon ftp at /[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/pub/ispell-dictionary-devel.tar.gz If somebody else wants to upload to ftp.debian.org, then please go ahead. Kenny. -- | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "http://

Dselect / dpkg interaction.

1995-10-03 Thread Kenny MacDonald
After talking to Stephen Tweedie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> last night about my understansing of the current way which dselect and dpkg handle the 'Z' conffiles option, he came up with one possible solution I thought should be aired. At the moment, dselect sets an environment variable, and dpkg then test

Bug#1627: ispell copyright file

1995-10-28 Thread Kenny MacDonald
The latest Debian releases of ispell, iamerican and ibritish do not use their version details in the copyright file names. ispell-3.1.18-4 iamerican-3.1.18-3 ibritish-3.1.18-3 Kenny. -- | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "http://www.glg.ed.ac.uk/~kenny"; Try Linux! | | Portuguese/English/French Translations

Bug#1715: ispell recommends word-list - nonexistent package

1995-10-28 Thread Kenny MacDonald
Ispell-3.1.18-4 now suggests a word-list instead of recommending one. I am retaining the 'word-list' virtual package, in the hope that a new wenglish will be released, perhaps even by myself, prviding such a virtual package. Kenny. -- | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "http://www.glg.ed.ac.uk/~kenny"; Try L