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) -- debconf-show failed -- 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