Your message dated Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:32:47 -0700
with message-id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
and subject line
has caused the Debian Bug report #440942,
regarding scowl: british wordlists require "practice" and "practise"
to be marked as done.
This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with.
If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the
Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith.
(NB: If you are a system administrator and have no idea what this
message is talking about, this may indicate a serious mail system
misconfiguration somewhere. Please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
immediately.)
--
440942: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=440942
Debian Bug Tracking System
Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] with problems
--- Begin Message ---
Package: scowl
Version: 6-2
Severity: normal
wbritish-* is wrong about "practice"
american-words.10: practice, practice's
american-words.20: practiced, practices, practicing
british-words.10: practise, practise's
british-words.20: practised, practises, practising
The British entry is wrong. I'm not familiar with how scowl generates the
lists, but surely final/british-words.10 needs to include "practice",
"practice's" (noun) and "practise" (verb).
It must be wrong to include "practise's", certainly at level 10, probably
at any level. Is it possible except in highly artificial sentences?
"It is practise's misfortune to be a verb spelt differently from the
related noun."
[I suspect Canadian follows British English here, but I'm not sure.]
>From scowl-6/README:
"Great care has been taken so that that only one spelling for any
particular word is included in the main list."
Fine, but the principle needs to be applied correctly, a bit like:
american-words.10 : check, checks
british-words.10: check, checks, cheque, cheques
--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message ---
Version: 6-2.3
reassign 440942 scowl
forcemerge 346113 344162 440942 403067
thanks
These bugs have all been fixed by the upload of scowl/6-2.3 and are
actually duplicates of #346113 which was also fixed in that upload.
Don Armstrong
--
Vimes hated and despised the privileges of rank, but they had this to
be said for them: At least they meant that you could hate and despise
them in comfort.
-- Terry Pratchett _The Fifth Elephant_ p111
http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu
--- End Message ---
