Hi all,

As promised, these are the dates for the ispell dictionaries 
and wordlist packages (IDWP) transition to the new policy: 

  1) On Friday October 11th, bugs with severity wishlist will be 
     filed against IDWP. Bugs will not be filed against packages 
     whose maintainer delegated on us to upload the package 
     currently at sourceforge. 

  2) On Monday October 14th, the real transition will start, and 
     from that time on all IDWP can be uploaded to Debian, 
     *closing* their associated bug. We will do the upload if you
     delegated on us.

  3) On Thursday or Friday of the same week, dictionaries-common 
     packages are uploaded to Debian. They need some more days to 
     make its place in the global override file.

  4) As soon as dictionaries-common packages are accepted bug 
     severity is raised to serious for all IDWP still not uploaded.

  5) Time for NMU if required 

You might have seen in the policy document that some aspell stuff 
has been added to it. That refers mainly to documentation spread 
across aspell and pspell manuals, that has now been put together in    
the policy document. If your package also provides an aspell 
dictionary, do not worry, this deadline does not affect the aspell 
part, that can be worked later.

Some reminders from previous messages:
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If you expect not being able to upload your package(s) short
after the deadline we could do that on your behalf. That would
help us to coordinate the transition. The same if you prefer the
package currently at sourceforge be uploaded by us with minor   
changes, but remember that this requires your prior agreement   
with the packages currently at sourceforge. In any case, if you 
have trouble, please contact us through the dict-common-dev mailing
list, so we know you are not MIA.

If the package at sourceforge was not built by you, and you decide 
to prepare the package from that one, please remember removing in 
the control file the 'Bugs:' line and the notes about the 
experimental character of the package and make sure that the 
'Maintainer' field has the appropriate value.

In the meantime, please test the system as much as you can. There 
are surely some hidden bugs, and we will find some more after the 
transition starts, but the most we find before the better. Remember 
that we have at the sourceforge staging area packages for nearly 
all old style ispell dictionary and wordlist packages (there is 
some very new one that might not be there).

As we previously told, please do not upload any old 
style ispell dictionary or wordlist packages to Debian in the 
meantime. That will confuse the transition. Also let us know 
whether you will not be ready at the transition time, and in such 
case, what can we do with respect to your packages. Note that 
after the new ispell and dictionaries-common are uploaded to Debian 
all previous ispell dictionaries and wordlists will become 
uninstallable.

If you are still not subscribed to the dict-common-dev mailing list at 
sourceforge, that is the best way to get in touch with us and discuss 
the final details of the transition.

Remember that the project page is at:

http://dict-common.sourceforge.net/



Your dictionaries-common team:

Rafael Laboissière,
David Coe,
Agustín Martín Domingo