Dear Paul, On 15. 05. 21 03:53, Paul Wise wrote: > The Homepage is 404, but the site it was on still works. Have you > tried contacting the person (Tomaž Erjavec) listed at the bottom of > the page (there is an email)?
I contacted Tomaž Erjavec and Aleš Košir (one of the authors of aspell-sl). aspell-sl is currently unmaintained. The old website and the archive of releases were lost in a hard drive crash. > I noticed an older version of this on the GNU website. It might be > worth contacting the aspell/ispell communities about this too. Tomaž and Aleš also pointed out that an old release of aspell-sl is still distributed as an official Slovenian dictionary for aspell from the gnu.org website. I checked the gnu.org release (0.50-0). It appears newer than 0.60 on which the current Debian package is currently based, despite its version number. It has a later copyright date (2004 vs. 2002) and the dictionary has approx. 17000 new words added and no words were removed. > I noticed that LibreOffice includes support for Slovenian and have > their own dictionary. It might be worth contacting the Slovenian > LibreOffice community. Earlier I missed the fact that hunspell-sl from Libreoffice is also packaged for Debian now. It is indeed another package that provides a Slovenian spell checker. For now I think it makes sense to base the aspell-sl Debian package on the 0.50-0 release from gnu.org instead of the 0.60 from the old website. I see on repology.org that other distros that don't pull aspell-sl package from Debian do that as well. In the long term, it would be nice if aspell-sl would get a new upstream maintainer. I will send out a few more mails, but I suspect finding one will not be easy. I've updated my proposed package: I changed the version to 0.60+really0.50.0-1, updated the copyright file, added a watch file that checks the gnu.org index and did a few other minor packaging changes. Full changelog entry: * Base the package on 0.50-0 tarball from gnu.org. - old upstream webpage is inaccessible since 2009. - despite lower version number the wordlist in 0.50-0 is larger and has a newer copyright date. * Minor packaging update - d/control: update to SV 4.5.1, update Vcs URLs, add Rules-Requires-Root, B/D on debhelper-compat = 12, add Homepage field. - Add d/watch. - d/copyright: use https in URLs, update to match new upstream package. - d/changelog: remove trailing whitespace. You can fetch the new package using: dget -x https://www.tablix.org/~avian/aspell-sl/aspell-sl_0.60+really0.50.0-1.dsc Best regards Tomaž