Hi, I would like to announce the Fedora change for the deprecation of the aspell package [1]. This package has a dead upstream and has been obsoleted (in most occurrences) by the hunspell package [2]. The Fedora Change [3] is describing this in more detail, feel free to view and read it. [1] https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/aspell [2] https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/hunspell [3] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/AspellDeprecation -- S pozdravom/ Best regards Lukáš Javorský Software Engineer, Core service - Databases Red Hat <https://www.redhat.com> Purkyňova 115 (TPB-C) 612 00 Brno - Královo Pole ljavorsk(a)redhat.com <https://www.redhat.com>

On 26. 05. 23 14:40, Lukas Javorsky wrote: > Sorry for the wrong URL of the change. This is the right one [1]. > > [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/AspellDeprecation > <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/AspellDeprecation> > > On Fri, May 26, 2023 at 2:30 PM Lukas Javorsky <ljavorsk(a)redhat.com > <mailto:ljavorsk@redhat.com>> wrote: > > Hi, > > I would like to announce the Fedora change for the deprecation of the > aspell package [1]. > > This package has a dead upstream and has been obsoleted (in most > occurrences) by the hunspell package [2]. > > The Fedora Change [3] is describing this in more detail, feel free to view > and read it. > > [1] https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/aspell > <https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/aspell> > [2] https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/hunspell > <https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/hunspell> > [3] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/AspellDeprecation > <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/AspellDeprecation> Hello Lukas, it seems that the list in the Dependencies section is incomplete: This is probably what you have, packages requiring aspell* on runtime: $ repoquery -q --repo=rawhide{,-source} --whatrequires 'aspell*' | grep -v '^aspell' | grep -v 'src$' | pkgname eiskaltdcpp-qt enchant-aspell enchant2-aspell kf5-sonnet-core kf5-sonnet-core moodle perl-Code-TidyAll perl-Text-Aspell php-pspell recoll recoll xedit xmlcopyeditor yagf But there are also packages BuildRequiring it: $ repoquery -q --repo=rawhide{,-source} --whatrequires 'aspell*' | grep -v '^aspell' | grep 'src$' | pkgname eiskaltdcpp enchant enchant2 hunspell-az hunspell-csb hunspell-de hunspell-en hunspell-fa hunspell-gv hunspell-ky ibus-typing-booster inkscape kf5-sonnet logjam perl-MouseX-ConfigFromFile perl-MouseX-Types-Path-Class perl-Text-Aspell perl-Text-SpellChecker php recoll tin xmlcopyeditor yagf -- Miro Hrončok -- Phone: +420777974800 IRC: mhroncok

If we’re going to recommend migration to anything, shouldn’t it be enchant2? Users would be able to configure their preferred spellchecking engine per language (which I imagine is more important for some languages than others), and we wouldn’t have to go through this again in the future if we hypothetically decided that, say, Nuspell should replace Hunspell as our default spellchecker.

Deprecating aspell package because it is no longer Required/Buildrequired by any package in Fedora.

I have one package in Fedora. It uses aspell's C++ API. Hunspell does not have a functionally-equivalent C++ API.

it does not have a C++ API that offers a convenient way for applications to run a spell check against the system's default dictionary.

On 28 May 2023, at 15:44, Sam Varshavchik <mrsam(a)courier-mta.com&gt; wrote: Hunspell does not have a functionally-equivalent C++ API. It has a C++ API of its own, but it's targeted at applications that come with their own language dictionaries. Its C++ API is, basically, a lookup function against a dictionary file that the application also supplies, it does not have a C++ API that offers a convenient way for applications to run a spell check against the system's default dictionary. The way for an application to do it is to have it run hunspell itself separately, and talk to it via pipes. Hopefully, it's easy for the application to do that without leaking other file descriptors. I found the hunspell C++ API usable. See https://github.com/barry-scott/BarrysEmacs/blob/master/Editor/Source/Comm... for an example. Barry _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel(a)lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave(a)lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue

Hi, I would like to announce the Fedora change for the deprecation of the aspell package [1]. This package has a dead upstream and has been obsoleted (in most occurrences) by the hunspell package [2].