Package: dictionaries-common Version: 1.12.10 Severity: important Dear Maintainer,
I expect /usr/share/dict/words to exist and be usable everywhere, and a great many shell scripts written over the last couple decades do too. I noted to my horror that it is non-functional now. It appears to be provided by the wamerican package, perhaps among others, but dictionaries-common steps in and points it to a non-existent file in /etc/dictionaries-common. $ ls -l /usr/share/dict/words lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 Jul 28 04:16 /usr/share/dict/words -> /etc/dictionaries-common/words $ ls -l /etc/dictionaries-common/words ls: cannot access /etc/dictionaries-common/words: No such file or directory $ ls /etc/dictionaries-common/ default.aff default.hash ispell-default $ dpkg -S /usr/share/dict/words diversion by dictionaries-common from: /usr/share/dict/words diversion by dictionaries-common to: /usr/share/dict/words.pre-dictionaries-common dictionaries-common, wamerican: /usr/share/dict/words /usr/share/dict/words needs to exist in a usable form without gutting my packages or having to dance around them. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/3 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages dictionaries-common depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.46 ii libtext-iconv-perl 1.7-5 dictionaries-common recommends no packages. Versions of packages dictionaries-common suggests: ii emacsen-common 2.0.3 ii ispell 3.3.02-5 pn jed-extra <none> -- debconf information: * dictionaries-common/default-wordlist: american (American English) dictionaries-common/invalid_debconf_value: dictionaries-common/ispell-autobuildhash-message: dictionaries-common/selecting_ispell_wordlist_default: * dictionaries-common/default-ispell: american (American English) dictionaries-common/old_wordlist_link: true dictionaries-common/move_old_usr_dict: true dictionaries-common/remove_old_usr_dict_link: false -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
