Bug 590700
| Summary: | No dictionaries? | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | Reporter: | Paul Howarth <paul> |
| Component: | aspell | Assignee: | Ivana Varekova <varekova> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | desktop-bugs <desktop-bugs> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | 6.0 | CC: | ejb, notting, shei |
| Target Milestone: | rc | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2010-05-11 09:50:31 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Paul Howarth
2010-05-10 14:08:35 UTC
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux major release. Product Management has requested further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Major release. This request is not yet committed for inclusion. aspell is the build requirance for several packages. I appreciate that but my question is: what use is the aspell support in these packages if there are no dictionaries to check against? aspell is only included as a build requirement for hunspell dictionaries. All apps in RHEL use hunspell as their supported spell checker; it's recommended that other apps do the same wherever possible. One of my packages in EPEL is perl-Text-SpellChecker, which is built on perl-Text-Aspell, the perl binding for aspell. It needs the English dictionary for its test suite, as do most of the perl modules that use it. I wondered if it would be possible to patch it to use hunspell instead and the obvious way to do that would have been to use Text::Hunspell (the official perl binding of hunspell, http://search.cpan.org/~eleonora/text_hunspell_1.3/) instead of Text::Aspell. Unfortunately Text::Hunspell doesn't actually work, segfaulting as soon as you actually try to use it (https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=39824). I contacted the maintainer of Text::Hunspell, who said: "I spent 3 full days with that problem, and the best result I got is the crash you write about." "I have no idea, how to get that fixed; I assume, some modification in hunspell caused the perl interface to break." "I am really sorry for this." "Best, eleonora" The simplest option would seem to me to be to add aspell-en in EPEL-6 to resolve this. I am prepared to look after this if the Fedora maintainer doesn't want it. Or does anyone have a better suggestion? Update: perl-Text-Hunspell has a new maintainer who has made it work with recent releases. It's packaged and built in Fedora, and branched for EPEL-6. Also, perl-Text-SpellChecker now has support for a hunspell backend (via perl-Text-Hunspell) as an alternative to aspell. Only sticking point ... RHEL-6 Server Beta 2 refresh seems to contain hunspell dictionaries for just about every language on the planet - except English(!), which is only available in RHEL-6 Workstation at the moment. Is this intended? Surely not? I need this package to build (and use) perl-Text-Hunspell in EPEL-6 and of course users of OpenOffice.org on RHEL-6 Server will most likely want it too... Should I open a separate bug for this? Please create a new bug report to this issue. Raised as Bug #636763, thanks. *** Bug 713220 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** I'd also point out that emacs's flyspell-mode uses aspell by default, though it can be configured to use hunspell. Jay - can you file that as a new bug against emacs? We should just configure it to use hunspell out of the box. Done -- see bug 713600. *** Bug 724017 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** |