[Mageia-dev] Consolidation of the spell checkers - current status before Beta 1 and general version freeze

Tue Feb 14 15:40:43 CET 2012

On 07.02.2012 03:23, Kamil Rytarowski wrote:
+> Hello!
+>
+> We are just only one month before the version freeze and two weeks 
+> before planned release of Beta 1.
+>
+> What was planned
+> - to switch in Mageia packages from Aspell and Myspell to Hunspell
+> - to support in Enchant only Hunspell and Voikko (the Finnish 
+> spell-checker)
+> - permanently remove Myspell from Mga2
+> - keep Aspell and Aspell dictionaries as a fall-back for old or 
+> software (or already not ported)
+> - remove Ispell remnants
+> * prepare policy for a Hunspell dictionary
+>
+> What was faced
+> - lack of policy
+> - Mozilla software (Firefox, Thunderbird, ...) is using Myspell
+> - packages: alpine, kadu-module-spellchecker, kdelibs4-core, scribus, 
+> weechat-aspell, xedit, xfig, gedit, psi, claws-mail, eclipse-texlipse, 
+> mutt and some perl and php packages were affected
+> - 120 Hunspell dictionaries needed to be rewritten
+> - 76 Aspell dictionaries needed to stop providing a virtual package 
+> "enchant-dictionary"
+> - Some Myspell packages provide hyphenation and thesaurus - and it has 
+> to be fully replaced by mythes and hyphen dictionaries
+>
+> What was done
+> - policy is written https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Hunspell-dictionary_policy
+> * it is following Mageia rpm guidelines and spec policies,
+> * we follow and base on the Fedora packages (mainly versions and 
+> sources) and therefore it's much easier to maintain
+> - these packages already switched to Enchant or Hunspell
+> * alpine, kadu-module-spellchecker, kdelibs4-core,  weechat-aspell, 
+> xfig, gedit, psi, claws-mail, eclipse-texlipse
+> (scribus is facing this request upstream, mutt and xedit still need a 
+> closer look)
+> * Ispell Perl package was marked as obsoleted and to be deleted
+> - c. 3/4 Hunspell dictionaries are already transformed
+> - c. 1/3 Aspell dictionaries are already cleaned
+>
+> To-do now (or before the local freeze for Beta 1)
+> - transform the rest of Hunspell dictionaries
+> - clean Aspell dictionaries
+> - final cleanning of Mozilla applications
+> * remove myspell definitely from Mga2
+> *ETA 2012-02-14*
+>
+> To-do before the release freeze
+> - clean mythes, thesaurus (and autocorr) packages
+> - review transformed dictionaries
+> - try to switch to Enchant/Hunspell in two Perl modules and review php 
+> ones
+Unfortunatelly I can't participate today the meeting.
+
+Status of the consolidation of the spellcheckers since last notification:
+- all hunspell dictionaries are transformed and are installing into 
+right directories
+- imported and submitted dictionaries of some missing languages (for now 
+gsc, lv, mg)
+- there was a bug request to move Mozilla applications to use hunspell 
+(dmorgan, ansii, doktor were having a look)
+- there was a bug request to use external thesaurus dictionaries in 
+Mozilla appls (thanks Luc!)
+
+To-do before the version freeze (I think, I can finish it tonight):
+- review additional ~50 hunspell dicts and use better obsoletion of myspell
+- stop providing enchant-dictionary in 2/3 aspell dicts
+
+To-do before the release freeze:
+- fix latest applications to use hunspell/enchant (xedit, mutt, some 
+perl and php packages,..?)
+- fix bugs
+