Subject: Re: bug#19926: 24.4; `ispell-comments-and-strings' (somewhat) unclear docstring

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2015 14:25:42 -0500

Agustin Martin wrote:

> Note that version above is only used in Debian/GNU*

Why does Debian distribute a duplicate ispell.el (and flyspell.el; both
in the dictionaries-common package), and why does it differ from the
version in Emacs (a quick diff seemed to show other differences)? Since
it ends up in site-lisp it is always going to shadow the Emacs version.