On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 03:33:07PM +0300, era eriksson wrote:
>
> I assume that having these files in dictionaries-common is a conscious
> decision, although having the same files as shipped by Emacs etc seems
> somewhat confusing and potentially risky.
They follow those in FSF Emacs trunk, so they are usually way more recent
than those shipped whith normal Emacs releases. They are also patched to
work with XEmacs and to provide a common interface to *spell to all emacsen
flavours in Debian. Currently, they will even work with emacs21.3 and
emacs22. There is a two way interaction between dictionaries-common and FSF
Emacs repo, I sometimes test things first in Debian before committing to the
upstream Emacs repo.
I plan to remove support for emacs21 and emacs22 as soon as squeeze is
released. I would like to commit all XEmacs compatibility stuff to FSF Emacs
bzr repo, to decrease the number of Debian specific stuff, but need first to
remove/adapt all the older emacsen stuff. A further target is to generalize
the steps needed for Debian integration and see if they can also be put
upstream in a reasonable way, so we can get rid of extra {i,fly}spell.el
files in some flavours, but this would make disappear the benefits of using
updated trunk code.
> (Witness also
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dictionaries-common/+bug/619015
> -- a change in emacs23 causes dictionaries-common's flyspell to break.
> Because of that, I hesitantly set the bug severity to Normal rather than
> Minor or Wishlist.)
Fix is available for nearly two months, way before Ubuntu maverick is
released. Do not know why 1.5.12, which only contains that fix, was not
allowed into Ubuntu maverick.
Thanks for testing, even if the versions were wrong.
--
Agustin
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