Bugzilla Bug 96794

A while ago, all my spell checking stopped working, whether by command line
(aspell or enchant) or in gnome apps (evo, gaim, etc.).  In addition, gedit
started crashing when I attempted spell checking.  I finally traced the error
down to having aspell-0.60 on my system, but aspell-en-0.51.  The result is a
highly broken aspell.  It seems likely that dependencies should enforce the
upgrade of the aspell-lang packages when aspell is updated to 0.60

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Add app-text/aspell ~x86 to /etc/portage/package.keywords
2. Update aspell
3. Run gedit -> crash, run aspell -> no dictionary

i can confirm this .. not quite sure how to fix it tho because it means adding
versions to virtuals.

the reason for the breakage if you mix dictionaries is because 0.60 removed the
strip-accents option 
which alot of the dictionaries used (well, at least english ones.)

there is already an einfo at the end of the aspell ebuild saying that you
should re-emerge all aspell-
LANG dictionaries.

for the record, this is the error you get:

acnt2@huggins /usr/portage/app-dicts/aspell-en $ aspell -c ChangeLog
Error: /usr/lib/aspell-0.60/en_GB.multi:2: The key "strip-accents" is unknown.

That means when I use aspell-0.6* I can't use aspell-en-0.5* ?

it would be good if aspell-0.6 blocked aspell-en-0.5 for example. or the
opposite...

OK; I've set aspell to block on aspell-en-0.5; now in CVS.
I checked most of the other languages, and it seems it's only English that
causes the problem.

(In reply to comment #4)
> OK; I've set aspell to block on aspell-en-0.5; now in CVS.
> I checked most of the other languages, and it seems it's only English that
> causes the problem.
> 

So - I've got this:

=app-dicts/aspell-en-0.5* (is blocking app-text/aspell-0.60.4-r1)

I can't upgrade GNOME 2.16 because of it.

What to do?

Please advise!

Thanks!

(In reply to comment #5)
> So - I've got this:
> 
> =app-dicts/aspell-en-0.5* (is blocking app-text/aspell-0.60.4-r1)
> 
> I can't upgrade GNOME 2.16 because of it.
> 
> What to do?

All you need to do is unmerge the blocking package ('emerge --unmerge
app-dicts/aspell-en'), then everything will merge fine.  This is the same as
you would have to do for any block.

If you unmask =app-text/aspell-0.60.4-r2 (add that to
/etc/portage/package.unmask; it's currently testing), it'll emerge
app-dicts/aspell-en-6 for you automatically, otherwise you may have to emerge
again app-dicts/aspell-en manually.

Make sure you are accepting aspell-en from ~arch - (as you've already done for
app-text/aspell itself - add it to /etc/portage/package.keywords).