Hi guys, as per summary please pmask for removal these for removal from main tree: app-text/ispell app-dict/ispell-* The replacement is to use aspell for statical dictionary or hunspell for the myspell hyphen based one. There are no left dependencies on this in main tree. I would remove it myself but I am not nor I plan to be subscribed to gentoo-dev which is mandatory for removals :-) Thanks
What is wrong with ispell that it needs to be removed? Also, it is bad style not to CC all maintainers before masking a package.
Ispell itself is fine, most dictionaries are deprecated and not updated since 2k5 or so. Even debian stable already rited all dicts and keeps around only the ispell itself for compilation purposes if something harddep on it. But we in Gentoo do not use it anywhere... Also from what I checked (not on all pkgs) maintainers are app-dicts -> pva -> no updates for last 3 years. Now I checked and indeed you are listed as maintainer on ispell-de-alt so sorry about the no-notice then.
(In reply to comment #2) > But we in Gentoo do not use it anywhere... Emacs uses it in textmodes/ispell.el. (It isn't listed in RDEPEND for the reasons stated in bug 72850 comment #1.) Not that I would be particularly fond of ispell, but I'm wondering why a working package that has no open bugs is being removed. (And natural languages don't change so fast that 10 or even 20 year old dictionaries should be a big issue.)
for russian, aspell dictionaries (aspell-ru-0.99.1-r1) seems to be 4 years older than the ispell version ispell-ru-0.99.8g_p5, as well as seemingly twice smaller.
(In reply to comment #3) Since app dict is dead I am trying to clean up all the mess so it works for libreoffice. And I myself don't have the time to cleanup all the mess. We can keep the app-text/ispell if some package needs it. Would it be working for you? Greatest problem with ispell is that it does not take utf into account at all. (In reply to comment #4) > for russian, aspell dictionaries (aspell-ru-0.99.1-r1) seems to be 4 years > older than the ispell version ispell-ru-0.99.8g_p5, as well as seemingly > twice smaller. Because I don't have the time to bump all the resources. First I am focusing on the myspell, as it is most modern and widely used one. If you take your time and find a homepage for your spell package you can actually open a bug where I will fix it. With the mess we have in dictionaries (all files put to our mirrors, no relevant upstream links) it takes me usually 1 hour to actually bump one of them correctly.
(In reply to comment #5) > We can keep the app-text/ispell if some package needs it. Would it be > working for you? app-text/ispell is not functional without dictionaries, so this wouldn't make much sense. Either remove everything or keep app-dicts/* too.
dropped
