rpmlint uses python-enchant for spell checking, which in turn uses enchant, and what dictionaries enchant uses is something that depends on enchant's configuration and defaults.  Therefore I don't think it would be appropriate to add a hunspell-en dependency to rpmlint.  I improved the info message upstream though: http://rpmlint.zarb.org/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/changeset/1743

I suppose English spell checking with Enchant should work with aspell-en instead of hunspell-en installed, but it doesn't seem to work at least in rpmlint.  Enchant bug?

Enchant and hunspell maintainers, do you think it would be appropriate to add a dependency to hunspell-en in one of those packages?  It's of course not strictly a requirement if one does not spell check English text but would solve problems like this and the dependency would seem quite innocent to me.  (Reassigning to enchant.)

Same problem with claws mail (bug #615007).

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Bump. I encountered this problem on claws-mail last week.

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Adding a hunspell-en requires to hunspell gives an ugly circular build dependency.

and, for what it's worth, yum-langpacks should pull the appropriate dictionary for your locale now.

(In reply to comment #6)
> Adding a hunspell-en requires to hunspell gives an ugly circular build
> dependency.

Are you sure hunspell-en actually requires hunspell to build? The only thing I see it referred to in is scowl/speller/make-hunspell-dict but even there the call to hunspell is commented out and $HUNSPELL isn't used anywhere. I tested dropping the build dep and it builds just fine.

yeah, that seems to be the case alright

meh, this makes me feel icky

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hunspell-1.3.2-5.fc17 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 17.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/hunspell-1.3.2-5.fc17

Package hunspell-1.3.2-5.fc17:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora 17 testing repository,
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Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing hunspell-1.3.2-5.fc17'
as soon as you are able to.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-11377/hunspell-1.3.2-5.fc17
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hunspell-1.3.2-5.fc17 has been pushed to the Fedora 17 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.