[Mageia-dev] [Mageia-Private] Consolidation of the spelling tools in Mageia

Wed Dec 21 15:21:21 CET 2011

On Wednesday, December 21, 2011 12:15:00 AM you wrote:
+> Hello!
+> 
+> Excuse me for using you e-mail address directly, I'm sending BCC to
+> every person who commented on the subject "Consolidation of the spelling
+> tools in Mageia" in the Mageia-Dev mailing-list. I'm doing it, because
+> the mailing-list isn't accessible and there is no ETA on resolving it.
+> 
+> There was a discuss on
+> 1) preparing policies on hunspell-dictionaries
+> 2) deprecate and kill myspell in Mga2
+> 3) changing the default path of dictionaries, from /usr/share/myspell to
+> /usr/share/hunspell (and to keep backward compatibility links in myspell
+> directory)
+> 4) to provide "enchant-dictionary" and "hunspell-dictionary" by every
+> hunspell-dictionary
+> 
+> So finally, I've prepared a first version of the policy
+> https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Hunspell-dictionary_policy
+> If you like, please tell me your comments of it. Is it right? (Also: is
+> the .spec correct?) When everything will be accepted then every
+> hunspell-dictionary will be updated  according to the policy.
+> 
+> PS. The changes of enchant will be proposed or accepted later, Funda has
+> already prepared the package.
+
+I strongly suggest to obsolete aspell as well. It doesn't have a maintainer.
+
+-- 
+Best regards
+Thomas Spuhler
+