Mark Brown wrote: > > David Coe wrote: > > > We have a patch to ispell, submitted to one of the > > open bugs, which upstream maintainer has decided > > isn't important enough to incorporate ... > > Why not? ...
Upstream author says it's a glibc bug, debian people say it's a glibc feature (i'm oversimplifying; you can read about it at http://bugs.debian.org/35288 if you care). > > I think I like the separate patch file better, > > though, because it'll be easier ... > > There is a system for doing this (used in egcs and XFree86) which was > written Adam Heath (IIRC) but it's not been released properly for > general use yet due to lack of documentation. Thanks, I'll check it out.
