Debian Bug report logs - #526726
alpine wants Build-Depends and Depends: aspell

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@MIT.EDU>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: alpine wants Build-Depends and Depends: aspell

Date: Sun, 3 May 2009 00:32:18 -0400 (EDT)

Package: alpine
Version: 2.00+dfsg-2

This is a reposting of Ubuntu bug #340993 (fixed in Jaunty); Asheesh said 
he would address it in the next Debian release, and I'm just anxious to 
see this next Debian release. :-)

alpine's debian/rules configures it it
  --with-spellcheck-program=aspell
which according to the changelog has been in Debian since 0.82+dfsg-4.

However, if you build it without aspell installed on your local system, 
./configure reports:
  checking for aspell... no
  checking for ispell... no
  checking for spell... no
  checking for aspell... no
  checking for ispell... no
and then builds the resulting binary without spell-checking support. You 
can confirm this by installing alpine, starting the composer with "alpine 
foo@example.com", scrolling to the message body, and pressing Ctrl-T.

If you install aspell on the build system before configuring, the build 
process successfully finds aspell, and Ctrl-T works in the resulting 
binary. I've only tested this on a build server in an Intrepid chroot, 
building in a clean environment and then after manually installing aspell, 
but I believe the same packaging bug applies to the latest Debian version 
as well.

So, alpine's package needs to Build-Depend on aspell, so it's present for 
./configure, and to Depend on (or at least Recommend) aspell, so it's 
available for use on the target system.

-- 
Geoffrey Thomas
geofft@mit.edu

Message #12 received at 526726-submitter@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Luke Faraone <lfaraone@debian.org>

To: control@bugs.debian.org

Cc: 526726-submitter@bugs.debian.org

Subject: closing 526726

Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 16:20:19 -0400

close 526726 2.00+dfsg-6 
thanks

Per the changelog:

alpine (2.00+dfsg-6) unstable; urgency=low

  * Add diversion for pico and remove conflict with nano.
    (Closes: #415169)
  * Build-depend on aspell. This makes it always build correctly with
    spell-checking support. (LP: #340993)
  * Change section of alpine-debug to "debug", fixing the override disparity.

 -- Asheesh Laroia <asheesh@asheesh.org>  Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:49:07 -0500

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