Hello!
We are just only one month before the version freeze and two weeks
before planned release of Beta 1.
What was planned
- to switch in Mageia packages from Aspell and Myspell to Hunspell
- to support in Enchant only Hunspell and Voikko (the Finnish spell-checker)
- permanently remove Myspell from Mga2
- keep Aspell and Aspell dictionaries as a fall-back for old or software
(or already not ported)
- remove Ispell remnants
* prepare policy for a Hunspell dictionary
What was faced
- lack of policy
- Mozilla software (Firefox, Thunderbird, ...) is using Myspell
- packages: alpine, kadu-module-spellchecker, kdelibs4-core, scribus,
weechat-aspell, xedit, xfig, gedit, psi, claws-mail, eclipse-texlipse,
mutt and some perl and php packages were affected
- 120 Hunspell dictionaries needed to be rewritten
- 76 Aspell dictionaries needed to stop providing a virtual package
"enchant-dictionary"
- Some Myspell packages provide hyphenation and thesaurus - and it has
to be fully replaced by mythes and hyphen dictionaries
What was done
- policy is written https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Hunspell-dictionary_policy
* it is following Mageia rpm guidelines and spec policies,
* we follow and base on the Fedora packages (mainly versions and
sources) and therefore it's much easier to maintain
- these packages already switched to Enchant or Hunspell
* alpine, kadu-module-spellchecker, kdelibs4-core, weechat-aspell,
xfig, gedit, psi, claws-mail, eclipse-texlipse
(scribus is facing this request upstream, mutt and xedit still need a
closer look)
* Ispell Perl package was marked as obsoleted and to be deleted
- c. 3/4 Hunspell dictionaries are already transformed
- c. 1/3 Aspell dictionaries are already cleaned
To-do now (or before the local freeze for Beta 1)
- transform the rest of Hunspell dictionaries
- clean Aspell dictionaries
- final cleanning of Mozilla applications
* remove myspell definitely from Mga2
*ETA 2012-02-14*
To-do before the release freeze
- clean mythes, thesaurus (and autocorr) packages
- review transformed dictionaries
- try to switch to Enchant/Hunspell in two Perl modules and review php ones
