On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 09:00:04PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > > For that reason I suggest that ispell, iamerican and ibritish entries > > be modified *right now* to be optional instead of standard. wbritish > > seems to be already optional. > > For most languages tasksel will automatically install relevant > dictionaries. It currently does not do so for English _because_ those > packages are priority standard (and have been for a long time). > IMO we should be consistent between languages in that respect, and > especially for English. > > It is now too late in the release cycle to change task definitions > to "compensate" for the priority change and test such changes, and the > change could also have consequences for debian-cd. > > Therefore, as member of the Debian Installer team, I have requested for > these changes to be postponed until after the release.
Knowing that, I agree with your point. ftpmasters, please forget what I proposed about ispell, iamerican and ibritish until lenny is out. Regarding what to do with wamerican once lenny is released, I think the change needs more discussion. As Russ Allbery explained, /usr/share/dict/words is something people historically expects in a standard unix system (and it contained originally an american wordlist). I am for keeping it standard. Regards, -- Agustin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
