Bug 2210277

Summary:	Deprecation of aspell package
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Lukas Javorsky <ljavorsk>
Component:	aspell	Assignee:	Nikola Forró <nforro>
Status:	ON_QA ---	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	39	CC:	jchaloup, ljavorsk, nforro
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Bug Depends On:	2218151, 2218152, 2218156, 2218157, 2218164, 2218165, 2218170, 2218172, 2218173, 2218175, 2218176, 2218177, 2218178, 2218202, 2218153, 2218154, 2218155, 2218158, 2218159, 2218161, 2218162, 2218163, 2218166, 2218167, 2218168, 2218169, 2218171, 2218531, 2218532, 2218533, 2218534, 2218535, 2218536, 2218537, 2218538, 2218541, 2218542, 2218544, 2218545, 2218546, 2218548, 2218549, 2218550, 2218551, 2218552, 2218553, 2218554, 2218555, 2218556, 2218557, 2218558, 2218559, 2218560, 2218561, 2218562, 2218564, 2218565, 2218569, 2218570, 2218571, 2218572, 2218573, 2218574, 2218575, 2218576, 2218578, 2218579, 2218580, 2218586, 2218587
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Description Lukas Javorsky 2023-05-26 12:32:27 UTC

Upstream of the aspell package has been inactive for almost 4 years. Most of the packages have already migrated to the supported hunspell package.

More detail about deprecation in Fedora 39 Change: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/AspellDeprecation

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Lukas Javorsky 2023-05-26 12:40:33 UTC

The right URL of the Fedora change: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/AspellDeprecation

Comment 2 Lukas Javorsky 2023-06-28 10:16:00 UTC

This change was approved, I'm working on deprecating the package

Comment 3 Lukas Javorsky 2023-06-28 10:38:02 UTC

Aspell has been deprecated: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/aspell/c/0b1c5ec116b9e47528d0cc9460842d55b21d50ce?branch=rawhide

Next, I'll generate BZs for each package that depends on the aspell package to consider removing this dependency.

I'll also deprecate the aspell dictionaries (aspell-* packages). For those for whom I'm not a default maintainer, I'll contact the maintainers to do it by themselves.

Comment 4 Lukas Javorsky 2023-06-29 14:23:03 UTC

All of the dictionaries were notified to deprecate their packages. I'll wait for 7 days, if there is no response from the maintainer, I'll deprecate them as they should follow the deprecation from aspell package.

Comment 5 Jens Petersen 2023-07-06 13:04:45 UTC

I think one thing you could consider doing to speed up or clarify the deprecation deps
is to separate out the compression tools in aspell into a subpackage (say aspell-tools).

Then hunspell dictionaries etc that only need those tools could BR
aspell-tools, and that might allow you to remove the libaspell
from Fedora sooner perhaps?

Anyway an idea to structure the deprecation/retirement steps a little.
How do you think?

Comment 6 Jens Petersen 2023-07-06 13:06:00 UTC

(just to add you can still have aspell require aspell-tools,
so it wouldn't be a breaking change)

Comment 7 Jens Petersen 2023-07-06 13:20:48 UTC

And/or aspell-libs perhaps - I guess it depends which part takes longer to be unneeded.

Comment 8 Lukas Javorsky 2023-07-10 08:29:22 UTC

I don't plan to create new subpackages in the deprecated package.

Comment 9 Lukas Javorsky 2023-07-11 10:16:09 UTC

All dictionaries has been deprecated

Comment 10 Fedora Release Engineering 2023-08-16 08:09:49 UTC

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora Linux 39 development cycle.
Changing version to 39.