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
The right URL of the Fedora change: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/AspellDeprecation
This change was approved, I'm working on deprecating the package
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.
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.
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?
(just to add you can still have aspell require aspell-tools, so it wouldn't be a breaking change)
And/or aspell-libs perhaps - I guess it depends which part takes longer to be unneeded.
I don't plan to create new subpackages in the deprecated package.
All dictionaries has been deprecated
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora Linux 39 development cycle. Changing version to 39.
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