On 2015-04-16 22:10, Axel Beckert wrote: > Hi, > Hi,
> when trying to build lintian, I've got a failing test suite as follows: > > [...] > Unfortunate indeed. > I've had similar issues with some Perl packages where we found out > that passing or failing depends on the selected default dictionary for > English. Back then it was US English vs UK English, but here I suspect > maybe the size of the dictionary: > > iamerican - American English dictionary for ispell (standard version) > iamerican-huge - American English dictionary for ispell (huge) > iamerican-insane - American English dictionary for ispell (insane version) > iamerican-large - American English dictionary for ispell (large) > iamerican-small - American English dictionary for ispell (small) > wamerican - American English dictionary words for /usr/share/dict > wamerican-huge - American English dictionary words for /usr/share/dict > wamerican-insane - American English dictionary words for /usr/share/dict > wamerican-large - American English dictionary words for /usr/share/dict > wamerican-small - American English dictionary words for /usr/share/dict > > (Installed are wamerican and iamerican.) > I believe we use none of those - instead we are using aspell + aspell-en. > This is obvious no issue for building in a clean chroot, but annoying > if you do test builds on your local system. > > Any ideas how to make the build independent of the installed > dictionary? Maybe running that test only if a specific dictionary > package is installed and the default. And just skipping the test > otherwise. > > Regards, Axel > It seems that the command used is "aspell list -l en -p /dev/null" and that Test::Spell has a "set_spell_cmd" that could be (ab)used for this purpose. I have not tested it - but if it works in and outside a clean chroot, I certainly do not mind having it in the test case. Thanks, ~Niels -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-lint-maint-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/55301ec6.7000...@thykier.net