Bug 140755

Summary:	myspell-de hyphenation directory is too old
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Christoph Schulz <kristov>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Spell checking utilities and dictionaries -- related bugs (OBSOLETE) <app-dicts+disabled>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	minor
Priority:	High
Version:	2008.0
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Christoph Schulz 2006-07-17 03:27:42 UTC

The myspell-de hyphenation directory found in the portage's ebuild is apparently older than the version found on the igerman98's site. The later (newer) one is also that version that is found and loaded via the DictOOO assistant in OpenOffice.

the myspell-de-20060316 version:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 42600 2002-06-08 14:20 hyph_de_DE.dic

the igerman98 version found in http://j3e.de/myspell/hyph_de_DE.zip:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 50110 2006-01-24 22:10 hyph_de_DE.dic

The later version is better in hyphenating words; it can be tested with the German word "unmittelbar".

The corresponding ebuild should be updated to the newer version. It's possible that this problem affects other myspell ebuilds, too, but I haven't checked for this.

Comment 1 Kevin F. Quinn (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-07-17 15:45:46 UTC

Thanks for the report - I'll get to it next week.

I don't monitor all 42 language myspell ebuilds for newer dictionaries; I rely on users of each language to bug me to update them if a better version becomes available.

Comment 2 Kevin F. Quinn (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-07-25 01:56:33 UTC

Note to self: also check out hunspell dictionary available at http://j3e.de/hunspell/ which may be superior to the old myspell dictionary

Comment 3 Christoph Schulz 2007-09-08 09:25:26 UTC

Anyone to upgrade to the igerman98 version, please? It's over a year that I filled this bug report... :-(

Comment 4 Kevin F. Quinn (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-02-04 21:55:24 UTC

Reassigning due to retirement

Comment 5 Christoph Schulz 2008-11-03 16:00:43 UTC

Ping...

Comment 6 Peter Volkov (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-11-03 19:40:40 UTC

Thank you for report Christoph Schulz. It took too long, sorry. Updated package is in the tree (myspell-de-20080915).

BTW, I've took version suggested by openoffice upstream:
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Dictionaries#German_.28Germany.2C_....29

But they are based on dictionary which could be found on igerman98 site, so I suppose it should work too.

Comment 7 Christoph Schulz 2008-11-03 21:14:13 UTC

(In reply to comment #6)
> BTW, I've took version suggested by openoffice upstream:
> [...]
> But they are based on dictionary which could be found on igerman98 site, so I
> suppose it should work too.

Thank you, it's the correct (~50kB) version.