Bug#41741: consider update-ispell-hash

1999-07-22 Thread David Coe
are interested in this tool, please look at ipolish (= 1.0.990527-2). This script could be a part of ispell package.. -- Piotr "Dexter" Roszatycki mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- David Coe

Bug#5379: ispell bug 5379

1999-07-22 Thread David Coe
I've extracted the following from a recent email conversation I had with Geoff Kuenning, the upstream author/maintainer: > ...munchlist.X contains this comment, which may be relevant:> > > # -w Passed on to ispell (specify chars that are part of a word) > # Unfortunately,

Bug#8585: (no subject)

1999-07-22 Thread David Coe
I received the following comment from the upstream maintainer. I'll be packaging 3.2.01 (a pre-release) soon; let me know if you want to try it. > There are tons of TeX variants that ispell doesn't understand. > Fortunately, ispell 3.2 will have two new mechanisms that will address > the problem.

Bug#13820: ispell warnings on Alpha

1999-07-22 Thread David Coe
I received the following request from the upstream maintainer; please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the specific warnings, or to let us know if you can no longer do that yourself. Thanks. > I've tried to address some of these, but it would be very helpful to > get a complete list of the warning

Bug#28321: (no subject)

1999-07-22 Thread David Coe
I received the following comment from the upstream maintainer: > On my list, but probably won't be fixed in the next release.

Bug#31822: (no subject)

1999-07-22 Thread David Coe
Thomas, I received the following brief comment from the upstream developer regarding this bug report; does this help you? > User error. Ispell does support iso-latin1 in TeX; it's just not the > default.

Bug#32726: (no subject)

1999-07-22 Thread David Coe
The upstream developer reports that these problems are fixed in ispell 3.2. I'm currently packaging a pre-release of 3.2 (3.2.01) for testing; reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you'd like to try that.

Bug#35288: ispell bug 35288

1999-07-22 Thread David Coe
I received the following comment from the upstream author. I haven't decided yet what to do about this, but will do so soon. If you have further comments, please send them to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks. > Torsten's suggestion of screwing backwards compatibility is not > acceptable. The real bug

Bug#39731: (no subject)

1999-07-22 Thread David Coe
I received the following comment from the upstream author, and will investigate: > This is a Debian configuration error. If /usr/dict/words doesn't > exist, a replacement should be specified by defining WORDS in config.X.

introduction

1999-07-23 Thread David Coe
lots of python, little perl, have compiled or built a few debian packages, have installed about ten debian systems (only i386 architecture). Where do you think I can help the most? Thanks. David Coe 1-410-489-9521

Bug#42964: correct update-ispell-dictionary behavior

1999-08-14 Thread David Coe
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 wit

Bug#42964: More on the same subject from cpbs@debian.org

1999-08-15 Thread David Coe
About update-ispell-dictionary: In the postinst of wenglish, I put some code to read the old "/etc/dictionary" symlink and force the new /etc/alternatives/dictionary to point to the corresponding new place. You might want to consider having update-ispell-dictionary use the same trick: # Install

Re: Intent to adopt: ispell iamerican ibritish

1999-08-18 Thread David Coe
> > upstream. > > Someone else wanted to adopt ispell. It's David Coe I think, take a look > at the archive. I think that he's not yet an official developer. Perhaps > you could act as a sponsor for him (he already started to work on ispell > AFAIK) ? > > His mai

Re: Quality Assurance in Debian

1999-09-13 Thread David Coe
Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The web site can be easily updated by sending mails to 2 mailbots. The > committee only can create new tasks but everybody can update the > information available for each task (setting the task as 'patch > available', closing it, setting the status fie

Re: Quality Assurance in Debian

1999-09-14 Thread David Coe
"I take" this unnumbered task: Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Actually what I need is a much better main page for the QA web site : > http://tux.u-strasbg.fr/~raphael/qa/ > > I need a text explaining how people can work for debian-qa. Basically it > should explain : > - subscri

ispell rcb closed [Re: Release-critical Bugreport for November 26, 1999]

1999-11-28 Thread David Coe
Christian Kurz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > > Package: ispell (main) > > Maintainer: David L. Coe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > 49487 ispell: can't build from source > > Is this bug fixed by now? Yes; was fixed in 3.1.20-3 and uploaded in 3.1.20-4, so was not automatically closed -- I manua