Re: Please focus on one generic spell checker in Debian (Was: Bug#487732: O: ispell -- International Ispell (an interactive spelling corrector))

2008-07-01 Thread Michael Tautschnig
> Michael Tautschnig wrote: > > Debian's Social Contract says that "Our priorities are our users and free > > software". It does _not_ say that "Debian should tell users what is good". > > Right? > > > Taken to the extreme, this would mean Debian would still require obsolete kernel version here

Re: Please focus on one generic spell checker in Debian (Was: Bug#487732: O: ispell -- International Ispell (an interactive spelling corrector))

2008-07-01 Thread Brian May
Michael Tautschnig wrote: > Debian's Social Contract says that "Our priorities are our users and free > software". It does _not_ say that "Debian should tell users what is good". > Right? > Taken to the extreme, this would mean Debian would still require because some users still need it for obs

Re: Please focus on one generic spell checker in Debian (Was: Bug#487732: O: ispell -- International Ispell (an interactive spelling corrector))

2008-07-01 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Michael Tautschnig] > Debian's Social Contract says that "Our priorities are our users and free > software". It does _not_ say that "Debian should tell users what is good". > Right? Would it be appropriate here to propose a corollary to Godwin's Law involving the first sentence of point 4 of the

Re: Please focus on one generic spell checker in Debian (Was: Bug#487732: O: ispell -- International Ispell (an interactive spelling corrector))

2008-07-01 Thread Thibaut Paumard
Le 1 juil. 08 à 14:59, Michael Tautschnig a écrit : Am Dienstag, 1. Juli 2008 12:33:18 schrieb Lars Wirzenius: ti, 2008-07-01 kello 12:10 +0200, Thibaut Paumard kirjoitti: Come on, UTF-8 is good. UTF-8 also 16 years old. [...] Surely it's enough age for a character set encoding to be accept

Re: Please focus on one generic spell checker in Debian (Was: Bug#487732: O: ispell -- International Ispell (an interactive spelling corrector))

2008-07-01 Thread Michael Tautschnig
> Am Dienstag, 1. Juli 2008 12:33:18 schrieb Lars Wirzenius: > > ti, 2008-07-01 kello 12:10 +0200, Thibaut Paumard kirjoitti: > > > Come on, UTF-8 is good. > > > > UTF-8 also 16 years old. That's enough for people to get driver's > > licenses in the US, to have legal sex in many parts of the world,

Re: Please focus on one generic spell checker in Debian (Was: Bug#487732: O: ispell -- International Ispell (an interactive spelling corrector))

2008-07-01 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Am Dienstag, 1. Juli 2008 12:33:18 schrieb Lars Wirzenius: > ti, 2008-07-01 kello 12:10 +0200, Thibaut Paumard kirjoitti: > > Come on, UTF-8 is good. > > UTF-8 also 16 years old. That's enough for people to get driver's > licenses in the US, to have legal sex in many parts of the world, and to > vo

Re: Please focus on one generic spell checker in Debian (Was: Bug#487732: O: ispell -- International Ispell (an interactive spelling corrector))

2008-07-01 Thread Lars Wirzenius
ti, 2008-07-01 kello 12:10 +0200, Thibaut Paumard kirjoitti: > Come on, UTF-8 is good. UTF-8 also 16 years old. That's enough for people to get driver's licenses in the US, to have legal sex in many parts of the world, and to vote in local elections in some parts of the world. Surely it's enough a

Re: Please focus on one generic spell checker in Debian (Was: Bug#487732: O: ispell -- International Ispell (an interactive spelling corrector))

2008-07-01 Thread Thibaut Paumard
Le 30 juin 08 à 20:09, Bernhard R. Link a écrit : * Hendrik Sattler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080629 18:15]: Am Mittwoch, 25. Juni 2008 21:53:24 schrieb Agustin Martin: Each spellchecker has currently some special features. Fortunately, the only thing where ispell is stronger than the other spell

Re: Please focus on one generic spell checker in Debian (Was: Bug#487732: O: ispell -- International Ispell (an interactive spelling corrector))

2008-06-30 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Hendrik Sattler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080629 18:15]: > Am Mittwoch, 25. Juni 2008 21:53:24 schrieb Agustin Martin: > > Each spellchecker has currently some special features. Fortunately, the > > only thing where ispell is stronger than the other spellcheckers (support > > for pseudocharsets like '

Re: Please focus on one generic spell checker in Debian (Was: Bug#487732: O: ispell -- International Ispell (an interactive spelling corrector))

2008-06-29 Thread Michael Tautschnig
> Am Mittwoch, 25. Juni 2008 21:53:24 schrieb Agustin Martin: > > Each spellchecker has currently some special features. Fortunately, the > > only thing where ispell is stronger than the other spellcheckers (support > > for pseudocharsets like 'a, "a, \'a, ... ) is already included in aspell > > de

Re: Please focus on one generic spell checker in Debian (Was: Bug#487732: O: ispell -- International Ispell (an interactive spelling corrector))

2008-06-29 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Am Mittwoch, 25. Juni 2008 21:53:24 schrieb Agustin Martin: > Each spellchecker has currently some special features. Fortunately, the > only thing where ispell is stronger than the other spellcheckers (support > for pseudocharsets like 'a, "a, \'a, ... ) is already included in aspell > development

Re: Please focus on one generic spell checker in Debian (Was: Bug#487732: O: ispell -- International Ispell (an interactive spelling corrector))

2008-06-25 Thread Agustin Martin
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 08:49:20PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > [Bernd Zeimetz] > > I'm forwarding this orphaning bug to debian-devel as I hope this rises > > the chances to find somebody who is willing to take care of ispell. > > According to http://ficus-www.cs.ucla.edu/geoff/ispell.htm

Re: Please focus on one generic spell checker in Debian (Was: Bug#487732: O: ispell -- International Ispell (an interactive spelling corrector))

2008-06-25 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 08:49:20PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > Given the limitations of ispell, I would instead urge us all to > migrate all our packages to use for example hunspell and drop ispell > completely from the distribution. It would be a lot easier to > maintain a dictionary i

Re: Please focus on one generic spell checker in Debian (Was: Bug#487732: O: ispell -- International Ispell (an interactive spelling corrector))

2008-06-25 Thread James Vega
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 08:49:20PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > And it would be a lot easier to check spelling in any language if all > programs supported a spell checker that supported any language, and > not only the "simple" ones with a structure similar to English. :) Even better would

Please focus on one generic spell checker in Debian (Was: Bug#487732: O: ispell -- International Ispell (an interactive spelling corrector))

2008-06-25 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Bernd Zeimetz] > I'm forwarding this orphaning bug to debian-devel as I hope this rises > the chances to find somebody who is willing to take care of ispell. > According to http://ficus-www.cs.ucla.edu/geoff/ispell.html the version > in Debian is pretty outdated, also there's a number of bugs to