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(This policy is already official in Debian, but
it is still work in progress. Comments are welcome.)
You will find here the Policy for integrating
spelling dictionaries and tools under the Debian system.
This page is intended for Debian developers who maintain
spelling related packages (ispell, dictionaries, wordlists, etc).
The current version of the Policy, authored by Rafael
Laboissière, David Coe, Agustín
Martín Domingo, and
René Engelhard
is available in the following formats:
There is also a new package called dictionaries-common,
which contains the Policy and the basic utilities for
integrating ispell dictionaries with debconf, emacsen,
jed, and mutt. The latest experimental versions of this
package, along with new ispell and wordlist dictionary packages
compliant with the Policy, is available
here with
this key. Debian sources
are also available. The stable
branch of this package is available at the Debian repositories.
You can also apt-get the latest experimental versions with the
following sources.list lines:
deb http://dict-common.alioth.debian.org/testing ./
deb-src http://dict-common.alioth.debian.org/testing ./
or
deb ftp://dict-common.alioth.debian.org/pub/dict-common ./
deb-src ftp://dict-common.alioth.debian.org/pub/dict-common ./
Coordination is done through the
dictionaries-common-dev
mailing list.
There is a very preliminary list of
Frequently Asked Questions
intended for ispell dictionaries and wordlists package
maintainers adapting their packages to this policy.
These are the latest news related to the project:
- [2003/06/09] The policy document now contains information
about myspell dictionaries too
- [2003/06/06] Finally all wordlists as well as aspell and
ispell dictionaries passed to testing.
- [2003/03/28] Closed the fake bug, now we are left to
the usual sid/testing cycle.
- [2002/10/30] All new style packages are already uploaded
to Debian. The system will be hold by a fake bug report on
dictionaries-common package until we are sure that all
packages can pass to 'testing' at the same time. Currently
the main problem is aspell building in hppa architecture, that
is affecting packages building also an aspell dictionary.
- [2002/10/01] We have dates for the transition, on Friday
October 11th, bugs with severity wishlist will be filed against
IDWP and the transition will start on Monday October 14th.
(see the final ANNOUNCE text)
- [2002/09/20] Announced the proximity of the deadline
to developers
(see the ANNOUNCE text)
with details about the procedure to follow. We expect it
for mid October.
- [2002/06/19] Sent bulletin to ispell dictionaries
and wordlists package maintainers with the latest news.
See the News Bulletin. We
now have at the sourceforge staging area ports to the new
system of all ispell dictionaries and wordlists currently
in Debian!
- [2002/06/18] The project has been announced in Debian
Weekly News,
number 23.
- [2002/06/11] Now the policy document (from 0.6.0) also
includes support for pspell-ispell modules
- [2002/05/28] The project as well as the policy proposal
have been announced to all debian users through the debian-devel
mailing list. See the ANNOUNCE
- [2002/03/01] The project as well as the policy proposal
have been announced to debian ispell dictionaries and wordlists
packages maintainers. See the ANNOUNCE
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