Bug#473541: Make gnome-spell use Enchant instead of aspell

[Sven Arvidsson]

Hi,

gnome-spell was never subscribed to
pkg-gnome-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org so this bug report didn't
reach the maintainers. I have subscribed the package now.

I can't comment on the patch, but what you describe does sound like a
good idea.

On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 11:45 +0300, Timo Jyrinki wrote:
> Package: gnome-spell
> Version: 1.0.7-1
> Severity: wishlist
> Tags: patch
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Please apply the following patch:
> http://www.abisource.com/%7Edom/gnome-spell-enchant.diff
> 
> To make gnome-spell work with libenchant instead of the legacy aspell. 
> Enchant is a program that supports multiple spell-checking libraries 
> like hunspell, and provides support also for some languages that are 
> not supportable by ispell/aspell/myspell/hunspell, via eg. Voikko 
> library (already in Debian) for Finnish.
> 
> The patch is already being used in eg. Fedora 9 
> (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=426347), and most 
> importantly it would bring support for new languages in Evolution.
> 
> The patch works for me, though it needs running autotools to 
> pick up the new libenchant-dev dependency in configure.ac.
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: lenny/sid
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
> Locale: LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
> 
> Versions of packages gnome-spell depends on:
> ii  aspell                 0.60.5-2          GNU Aspell spell-checker
> ii  libart-2.0-2           2.3.20-1          Library of functions for 2D graphi
> ii  libaspell15            0.60.5-2          GNU Aspell spell-checker runtime l
> ii  libatk1.0-0            1.22.0-1          The ATK accessibility toolkit
> ii  libbonobo2-0           2.22.0-1          Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
> ii  libbonoboui2-0         2.22.0-1          The Bonobo UI library
> ii  libc6                  2.7-9             GNU C Library: Shared libraries
> ii  libcairo2              1.4.14-1          The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
> ii  libfontconfig1         2.5.0-2           generic font configuration library
> ii  libgconf2-4            2.22.0-1          GNOME configuration database syste
> ii  libglade2-0            1:2.6.2-1         library to load .glade files at ru
> ii  libglib2.0-0           2.16.1-2          The GLib library of C routines
> ii  libgnome-keyring0      2.22.0-2          GNOME keyring services library
> ii  libgnome2-0            2.20.1.1-1        The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
> ii  libgnomecanvas2-0      2.20.1.1-1        A powerful object-oriented display
> ii  libgnomeui-0           2.20.1.1-1        The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
> ii  libgnomevfs2-0         1:2.22.0-2        GNOME Virtual File System (runtime
> ii  libgtk2.0-0            2.12.9-2          The GTK+ graphical user interface 
> ii  libice6                2:1.0.4-1         X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
> ii  liborbit2              1:2.14.12-0.1     libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
> ii  libpango1.0-0          1.20.0-1          Layout and rendering of internatio
> ii  libpopt0               1.10-3            lib for parsing cmdline parameters
> ii  libsm6                 2:1.0.3-1+b1      X11 Session Management library
> ii  libx11-6               2:1.0.3-7         X11 client-side library
> ii  libxcursor1            1:1.1.9-1         X cursor management library
> ii  libxext6               2:1.0.4-1         X11 miscellaneous extension librar
> ii  libxi6                 2:1.1.3-1         X11 Input extension library
> ii  libxinerama1           2:1.0.3-1         X11 Xinerama extension library
> ii  libxml2                2.6.31.dfsg-2     GNOME XML library
> ii  libxrandr2             2:1.2.2-1         X11 RandR extension library
> ii  libxrender1            1:0.9.4-1         X Rendering Extension client libra
> ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-11 compression library - runtime
> 
> gnome-spell recommends no packages.
> 
> -- no debconf information
> 
> 
> 
-- 
Cheers,
Sven Arvidsson
http://www.whiz.se
PGP Key ID 760BDD22
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