Package: aspell
Version: 0.60.6-4
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch

Paragraph two of the DESCRIPTION has:
# The Aspell library contains an interface allowing other programs
# direct access to it's functions and therefore reducing the complex
                     ^
That's the contraction meaning "it is" or "it has".  What you wanted
was the possessive pronoun "its" (compare "his", "whose").

Misapostrophisation is almost completely incapable of causing real
ambiguity, so I'm only calling it wishlist.  You might even argue
that it's a valuable hint to alert readers of the limitations of
"spellchecking" software...

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.33.custom
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages aspell depends on:
ii  dictionaries-common       1.5.1          Common utilities for spelling dict
ii  libaspell15               0.60.6-4       GNU Aspell spell-checker runtime l
ii  libc6                     2.10.2-6       Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libgcc1                   1:4.4.2-9      GCC support library
ii  libncursesw5              5.7+20100313-1 shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libstdc++6                4.4.2-9        The GNU Standard C++ Library v3

Versions of packages aspell recommends:
ii  aspell-en [aspell-dictionary] 6.0-0-6    English dictionary for GNU Aspell

Versions of packages aspell suggests:
pn  aspell-doc                    <none>     (no description available)
pn  spellutils                    <none>     (no description available)

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JBR
Ankh kak! (Ancient Egyptian blessing)
--- aspell-0.60.6.pristine/manual/aspell.1	2006-12-19 10:55:08.000000000 +0000
+++ aspell-0.60.6/manual/aspell.1	2010-04-06 22:07:40.000000000 +0100
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 used by the library.
 .PP
 The Aspell library contains an interface allowing other programs direct
-access to it's functions and therefore reducing the complex task of
+access to its functions and therefore reducing the complex task of
 spell checking to simple library calls.  The default library does not
 contain dictionary word lists.  To add language dictionaries, please
 check your distro first for modified dictionaries, otherwise look here

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