Package: ispell Version: 3.1.20-0.6 Severity: wishlist (cc'd to yada bug 38584 because that's where this problem was brought up.)
I'm the (prospective) new ispell maintainer, and I agree with Charles' comments about update-ispell-dictionary's behavior ... I will try and make it more standard without breaking the traditionally expected behavior; Charles, I'll write to you if I get stuck. Thanks. (P.S. I'm experimentally yada-izing ispell.) Charles Briscoe-Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Urckh. I've had a look at update-ispell-dictionary now, and I see > what's going on. update-ispell-dictionary manipulates the > alternatives' priorities to make the symlinks point at the right places > without switching the alternatives to manual mode. > > I consider this to be thoroughly evil abuse of the alternatives system; > but then, there isn't really much proper documentation saying what > "good" use of the alternatives system is, apart from the > "update-alternatives" man page (which I wrote), and a brief overview in > the back of the packaging manual. > ... > I see that the other ispell dictionaries have some ugly code in their > maint scripts to intuit what priority they are installed at, and to > work around update-ispell-dictionary's brokenness.
