On Mon, 16 Jun 2025, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: > Though now that I read the spec, I see the following: > > # IMPORTANT > # This package has been deprecated since Fedora 39 > # The reason behind this is that upstream has been inactive for more than > # 4 years > # and there are other variants like hunspell or enchant which has active > # upstream > # FESCo approval is located here: https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/3009 > # Change proposal is located here: > # https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/AspellDeprecation > > So there might be other considerations. I know there has been much > discussion around the status of aspell.
While it’s true that Aspell isn’t terribly active upstream, it does have a release cadence in recent years similar to that of Hunspell, so I feel its problems are perhaps exaggerated. In any case, probably best to prefer enchant2 if you can, which will select the best backend available for a given language. -- Peter Oliver -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
