Package: scowl Version: 6-2.3 The normal -ing form of "to die" (to perish) is "dying". Related to the less common noun "die" meaning a metal forming tool there's a verb "to die" meaning to cut or shape with a die, and the -ing form of this is "dieing". This correct form of "dieing" is quite rare and specialized, though Google finds a few real examples, like US patent 4,343,097 and the 1910 Constitution of the United Brotherhood of Leather Workers on Horse Goods. However "dieing" occurs much more often as a misspelling of "dying" or "dyeing", so it should probably not appear in a general spell-checking wordlist. It's not in my desk dictionary or any of Alan Beale's 12dicts.
In the Debian 6-2.3 scowl package, "dieing" appears at level 35, and so makes it into all sizes of wamerican. (I noticed this bug when a spell-checker failed to catch "dieing".) However, when I check out the latest version of the SCOWL upstream SVN repository (r93) and build it, "dieing" comes out at level 80, which seems much more appropriate. It wasn't immediately obvious to me what change relative to the Debian version fixed this, or what source file controls it. I would be perfectly happy with a Debian package that reflected the fixed upstream decision, so likely the only action required is to verify that this is fixed whenever upstream changes are next incorporated. -- Stephen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
