Re: [aspell] Announce: Aspell .30

[Sudhakar Chandrasekharan]

Kevin Atkinson proclaimed:
> Aspell Version .30 is now avialbe at http://aspell.sourceforge.net/

I am in the process of packaging it for Debian unstable (aka "woody").  I
have a few questions:

> This version requires Pspell to also be installed.  You can get pspell
> from http://pspell.sourceforge.net/.

I used to break aspell into sub-packages and upload them for Debian.  The
sub-packages I used to have up to version 0.29.1 were:

* libaspell
        Contained the dynamic libraries.  The idea was that anyone who wanted to
install any applications (the aspell binary or the gaspell binary, for
example) that were dynamically linked against the aspell library would have
to install this.

* libaspell-dev
        Contained the headers and the static libraries.   The rationale was that
anyone who wanted to compile aspell support into their applications would
install this package.

* aspell-doc
        All the documentation

* aspell
        The actual binary.



What do I do now that pspell is here.  Here are the packages that I thought
of building:

* libpspell
        Contains the dynamic pspell libraries.

* libpspell-dev
        Contains the header files, static libraries, the documentation and the
examples

in addition to the 4 packages that are akready being built.  Does this
sound like a good idea?

> Changes from .29.1 to .30 (April 2, 2000)

I ship my Debian package with a man page.  I noticed that my man page is
woefully out of date.  While updating I saw that the usage documentation in
the various formats are written in a language that is not easily
understandable.

Kevin,  if the command line options are decently baked at this point, I
could try rewriting the usage documentation.


Also, are we working with ispell developers on the pspell front?  If that
is the plan, I will start contacting the Debian packagers of ispell and
start formulating a plan.

S.
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