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

Sat Feb 25 15:57:08 CET 2012

On Wednesday, February 22, 2012 01:40:31 AM Kamil Rytarowski wrote:
+> On 22.02.2012 09:34, D.Morgan wrote:
+> > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 4:00 AM, Kamil Rytarowski<n54 at gmx.com>  wrote:
+> >> On 14.02.2012 15:40, Kamil Rytarowski wrote:
+> >>> 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
+> >> 
+> >> Done.
+> >> All Hunspell dictionaries are ready, Aspell one are cleaned and Myspell
+> >> is moved into obsoletes. Have fun and feel free to submit bugs.
+> > 
+> > aspell is still available on mirors. Do we need to remove them
+> > manually from the repo ?
+> 
+> No, Aspell can't be obsoleted definitely (and so removed from mirrors)
+> in this moment. Current goal is to stop installing, requiring it.
+> It's still a requirement of Scribus (there is an upstream bug) and PHP
+> (Thomas is having look) + Perl (there are bugs against Jerome's
+> packages) modules.
+
+I had a good look on my trip home last night. As far as I can see:
+if we drop php-pspell we wouldn't need aspell anymore (only the libs are 
+needed anyway)
+urpmq --whatrequires php-pspell returns nothing.
+php-enchant uses enchant and looking at that, the link is from myspell to 
+hunspell. Anssi, your opinion
+
+-- 
+Best regards
+Thomas Spuhler
+