Bug#498855: wordnet broken in etch after security update

[Riku Saikkonen]

Package: wordnet
Version: 1:2.1-4+etch1
Tags: etch

I upgraded wordnet using the recent security update in etch:

[UPGRADE] wordnet 1:2.1-4 -> 1:2.1-4+etch1
[UPGRADE] wordnet-base 1:2.1-4 -> 1:2.1-4+etch1

After this upgrade, most of the features of the "wn" command-line
client don't work. Only -over and -famln seem to work, everything else
I tried displays only two lines of text. For instance:

,----
| $ wn work
| 
| Information available for noun work
|         -hypen          Hypernyms
|         -hypon, -treen  Hyponyms & Hyponym Tree
|         -synsn          Synonyms (ordered by estimated frequency)
|         -partn          Has Part Meronyms
|         -meron          All Meronyms
|         -derin          Derived Forms
|         -domnn          Domain
|         -famln          Familiarity & Polysemy Count
|         -coorn          Coordinate Terms (sisters)
|         -grepn          List of Compound Words
|         -over           Overview of Senses
| 
| Information available for verb work
|         -antsv          Antonyms
|         -hypev          Hypernyms
|         -hypov, -treev  Hyponyms & Hyponym Tree
|         -entav          Verb Entailment
|         -synsv          Synonyms (ordered by estimated frequency)
|         -causv          Cause to
|         -deriv          Derived Forms
|         -domnv          Domain
|         -famlv          Familiarity & Polysemy Count
|         -framv          Verb Frames
|         -coorv          Coordinate Terms (sisters)
|         -simsv          Synonyms (grouped by similarity of meaning)
|         -grepv          List of Compound Words
|         -over           Overview of Senses
| 
| No information available for adj work
| 
| No information available for adv work
| 
| $ wn work -over
| 
| Overview of noun work
| 
| The noun work has 7 senses (first 7 from tagged texts)
|                                            
| 1. (435) work -- (activity directed toward making or doing something;
|          "she checked several points needing further work")
[... and so on, this is correct ...]
| 
| $ wn work -hypen
| 
| Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun work
| 
| 7 senses of work$    
| $ wn work -antsv
| 
| Antonyms of verb work
| 
| 1 of 27 senses of work$ 
| $ wn work -coorv
| 
| Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb work
| 
| 24 of 27 senses of work$ 
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I think this is the same bug as #497649, which was fixed in lenny a
while ago. Any chance of fixing the bug also for etch, as the current
wordnet in etch is almost useless after the security update?

(I submitted a new bug instead of trying to reopen bug #497649 for
etch only, because I'm not familiar enough with the bug tracking
system to do the latter.)

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