[Dict-common-dev] pspell, pspell-ispell, aspell and dictionaries-common

[Rafael Laboissiere]

Hi Agustín and Domenico,

Sorry for being silent on to the present thread.  

I think that you both reach consensus about how to handle pspell-ispell
support.  From the little that I saw, I think that it is straightforward to
add pspell support to the dictionaries-common package.  As Agustín
suggested, we should just require that the Ispell dictionary package
maintainers add an extra "Pspell" (or whatever) field to the
debian/info-ispell that would contain the part of the file name needed for
the file /path/to/<Pspell_field>-ispell.pwli.  Using the "Hash-Name" and
"Coding-System" fields, the contents of that file are easily determined.  

The location for the automatically generated file must be under the /var
hierachy, as Agustín have already pointed out.  A question to Domenico: is
it easy to change the pkgdatadir of pspell to, say,
/var/cache/dictionaries-common/?

In order to implement this idea, I will try to hack the installation script
of dictionaries-common as soon as I have some free time (may take a while,
though, since I am busy right now).  Once the pspell feature is added, we
will have to update in the Policy document and to rebuild of all the
dictionay packages in the staging area.

-- 
Rafael