GNU bug report logs - #29801
25.3; ispell cannot detect installed dictionaries

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: basilio <at> gmx.com

Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2017 16:29:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 31724

Found in versions 24.5, 25.3

Fixed in version 26.0.91

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #35 received at 29801 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: basilio <at> gmx.com, 29801 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#29801: 25.3; ispell cannot detect installed dictionaries
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2017 20:33:17 +0200

> From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
> Cc: Basilio <basilio <at> gmx.com>,  29801 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2017 13:04:08 -0500
> 
> >   "(but really Aspell \\([0-9]+\\.[0-9.]+\\([-._+ ]?[a-zA-Z0-9]+\\)?\\)?)"
> 
> I see that the only thing ispell.el uses the numeric version for is to
> test if it is >= 0.60. aspell 0.60 was released in 2004. Even RHEL6 has
> aspell 0.60.6. So IMO ispell.el can discard the version checking
> entirely, and just look for "really Aspell".

Why would we want to make a change that gains us nothing at all, and
at "best" breaks old systems?
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