Another take on vim-spellfiles

Stefano Zacchiroli zack at debian.org
Tue Nov 27 07:51:06 UTC 2007


On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 03:49:53AM -0500, James Vega wrote:
> Since the current incarnation of our spellfiles packages are gathering
> quite a bit of dust, I took a look at Vim's ftp.  It appears to have
> pre-generated spellfiles available[0].

Haven't these always been available? I bet this was the place where the
built-in vim plugin used to download spellfiles from ...

> If we were to just download these directly and package them, it would
> considerably ease the maintenance of the spellfiles packages.  We
> wouldn't have to worry about whether our computer could handle building
> the spellfiles, fiddling with various patches to get the AAP recipes
> working, etc.

Ack.

> The thing I'm not sure about is whether this is a viable path for our
> packages since these pre-generated sources are not the preferred form of
> modification.  Am I correct in my hesitation?  Does it really boil down

I would delegate the decision to ftp masters, but I don't think they
will consider as suitable for main the generated spell files without the
matching "sources". At best we can aim to have them included in
non-free, which would be a pity. This week I'm going to attend the QA
meeting in Extremadura, and Joerg would be there. If you agree I can try
to discuss this with him to gather some opinions on the ftp-master side.
What do you think?

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