1 scowl (2020.12.07-2) unstable; urgency=medium
3 * Wordlists are now sorted with the -d option to sort, which only sorts
4 in dictionary order instead of sorting in LC_SORT=C order. (Closes:
7 -- Don Armstrong <don@debian.org> Mon, 03 May 2021 16:20:26 -0700
9 scowl (2020.12.07-1) unstable; urgency=medium
11 * New upstream release
12 * Switch to using mk-list instead of custom code for identifying files
15 -- Don Armstrong <don@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 2020 16:43:45 -0800
17 scowl (2019.10.06-1) unstable; urgency=medium
19 * New upstream release (Closes: #952736)
20 * Deprecate reprized for reprised (Closes: #952653)
21 * Use up to 70 wordlists for hunspell (Closes: #933544)
22 * Distribute all scowl files as utf-8 (Closes: #775480)
24 -- Don Armstrong <don@debian.org> Sat, 29 Feb 2020 20:07:46 -0800
26 scowl (2018.04.16-1) unstable; urgency=medium
28 * New upstream release
29 * Use $(DEB_VERSION) for hunspel-en-{us,au,ca} insead of
30 $(DEB_VERSION_UPSTREAM) (Closes: #884921)
31 * Fix failure to build reproducibly with new debhelper versions due to
32 wrong install: and build: targets in Makefile. (Closes: #890618)
34 * Call install-myspell to register the hunspell dictionaries (Closes:
36 * All of the packages we produce are Multi-Arch: foreign (Closes: #752589)
37 * Update standard-version; no changes.
39 -- Don Armstrong <don@debian.org> Tue, 24 Apr 2018 16:08:24 -0700
41 scowl (2017.08.24-1) unstable; urgency=medium
43 * New upstream release
44 * Move sangs (plural of an obscure plant) to -95 (Closes: #861025).
45 Thanks to Josh Triplett.
46 * variant_0 and variant_1 are now _1 and _2; update rules to properly
47 include them (Closes: #867586). Thanks to 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson.
48 * build hunspell-en-{us,au,ca} from here. The versions in
49 libreoffice-dictionaries are built from here anyway (closes: #795159,
50 #874519, #879199). Thanks to Rene Engelhard for the patch.
52 -- Don Armstrong <don@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2017 12:09:03 -0700
54 scowl (2017.01.22-1) experimental; urgency=low
56 * New upstream release
57 * Include the proper variant spelling into the proper language (Closes:
58 #659841). Thanks to Drew Parsons.
59 * Sort using LC_ALL=C to make builds reproducible. (Closes: #791851).
60 Thanks to Reiner Herrmann.
61 * Remove non-word mys (Closes: #858961). Thanks to Josh Triplett.
62 * Switch to dh $@ style packaging
63 * Switch to quilt packaging
65 -- Don Armstrong <don@debian.org> Sun, 09 Apr 2017 15:25:00 -0700
67 scowl (7.1-1) unstable; urgency=low
69 * New upstream release
70 - Move dieing to english-words.80 (Closes: #515896)
71 - Modularises is in english-words.80 (Closes: #634824)
72 * Remove uniprocessorunix, thanks to Dean Menezes (Closes: #530456)
73 * afterward and afterwards are both perfectly legitimate english words;
74 add them to english-words.10 (Closes: #564032)
75 * Add unices, unixen to hacker list; add unixes to english-words.95,
76 thanks to Dean Menezes (Closes: #530457)
77 * Add analyses (plural of analysis) (Closes: #570718). Thanks to Benoit
79 * Deprecate irregardless slightly (Closes: #584076)
80 * Stick prepend into american words even though it is computer
81 jargon (Closes: #402055)
83 -- Don Armstrong <don@debian.org> Wed, 12 Oct 2011 14:44:02 -0700
85 scowl (6-3) unstable; urgency=low
87 * Encode in UTF-8, thanks to Marc Fournier (Closes: #470463)
88 * Kill off triple letter misspellings, thanks to Justin B Rye (Closes:
90 * Fix supr{essed,ising} issues in english-words.95, thanks to Jidanni
92 * Sanitize the makefile to not be so repetitive
93 * Add -insane package to include the .95 wordlists
94 * Include hacker special wordlist in the insane dictionaries
96 * Update standards version
98 -- Don Armstrong <don@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 2009 23:59:43 -0700
100 scowl (6-2.3) unstable; urgency=low
102 * Taking over this package (Closes: #487734)
103 * Fix the building of -huge binaries (Closes: #346113) [Thanks to Jason
104 Rhinelander <jagerman@jagerman.com> for a patch, though I actually
105 implemented myself without seeing his.]
107 -- Don Armstrong <don@debian.org> Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:16:08 -0700
109 scowl (6-2.2) unstable; urgency=low
111 * Non-maintainer upload.
112 * Make wamerican no longer depend on dictionaries-common, while
113 using its features if present: (Closes: #487977).
114 - wamerican.links: Install /usr/share/dict/words link to
116 - wamerican.post{inst,rm}: Run dictionaries-common stuff only
118 - wamerican.config: Check that dictionaries-common is installed
119 and a recent version (having elanguages support) before trying
121 - debian/rules: Do not auto-generate maintainer scripts for
122 wamerican, but use the new hardcoded ones. Split
123 installdeb-wordlist stuff for wamerican and the rest of the
124 wordlists, moving both to the install target.
125 - debian/control: Remove dictionaries-common dependency and
126 include a conflicts against dictionaries-common (<< 0.98) where
127 /usr/share/dict/words link diversion is included.
129 - Bumped Standards-Version to 3.7.3. No changes needed.
130 - Moved debhelper dependency from Build-Depends-Indep to
131 Build-Depends. debhelper is required to run the clean target
132 of debian/rules (Policy Manual, section 7.6).
134 -- Agustin Martin Domingo <agmartin@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:24:26 +0200
136 scowl (6-2.1) unstable; urgency=low
138 * Non-maintainer upload.
139 * Bumped Standards-Version to 3.7.2. No changes needed.
140 * debian/compat now is 5.
141 * Apply patch from Tom Parker <debian@tevp.net>, to stop Scowl generated
142 packages to erronously depend on debconf twice, and to allow for
143 debconf-2.0 as an alternate, thus blocking the cedebconf transition
146 -- Amaya Rodrigo Sastre <amaya@debian.org> Sat, 27 Jan 2007 18:38:03 +0100
148 scowl (6-2) unstable; urgency=low
150 * debian/rules: remove a ${!VAR} bashism; replace with eval(...)
151 Closes: #207102 scowl: debian/rules script contains bashisms
153 -- David Coe <davidc@debian.org> Fri, 14 Oct 2005 22:00:22 -0400
155 scowl (6-1) unstable; urgency=low
157 * New upstream release.
158 Closes: #333207 wamerican-large: new upstream release 6 available
159 * debian/rules and debian/control: Added -huge versions of the
160 american, canadian, and british word lists. Upstream word lists are
161 now better organized; we take advantage of that by adding the new
162 size "40" word lists to the standard lists, the size "55" word lists
163 to the -large lists, and the size "80" word lists to the (new) -huge
165 Closes: #317422 dictionaries-common: sightlines/metallicity
166 "Sightlines" is now in the -huge lists; "metallicity" is only in the
167 upstream size "95" lists, so (by my policy) even the -huge lists
168 won't include it. If you want that, and all the other really odd
169 words, please install and use the Debian "scowl" package.
170 * Added "Debian" and "Debian's" to english-proper-names.50, which
171 gets them into the standard, -large, and -huge lists.
172 If Microsoft is there (it is), we should be too ;).
173 Closes: #327749: wamerican: should include "debian" in wordlist
175 - standards version 3.6.2 (no changes required)
176 - removed the 'wenglish' dummy package
177 Closes: #322072 wenglish: Dummy package still needed?
178 Closes: #286583 wenglish: typo in package description
179 * debian/copyright: updated copyright (some additions from
180 latest upstream README).
182 -- David Coe <davidc@debian.org> Fri, 14 Oct 2005 01:00:03 -0400
184 scowl (5-4) unstable; urgency=low
186 * debian/control: depend [and build-depend] on newer
187 dictionaries-common[-dev] (>=0.20).
188 Closes: #232166 "Please update your ... package(s) to new .config system"
189 * debian/control; bump standards-version; no changes required.
190 * debian/wenglish.preinst: removed -- this previously-implemented half-fix
192 Closes: #216397 "debconf oops"
193 * debian/control: add missing debconf dependencies.
195 -- David Coe <davidc@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 2004 02:38:32 -0500
197 scowl (5-3) unstable; urgency=low
199 * corrected a typo/thinko in the scowl pacakge description;
200 thanks to Leonardo Rochael Almeida for noticing and reporting it.
201 Closes: #201564: s/wenglish/wbritish/ in package description
202 * added wenglish.preinst, to remove the obsolete "wenglish"
203 debconf choice, now that wamerican has replaced wenglish.
204 See also dictionaries-common bug #200098, which explains
205 why this solution is not perfect.
206 Closes: #202570: typo in debconf prompt
207 * standards version 3.6.0; converted this changelog to UTF-8.
209 -- David Coe <davidc@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jul 2003 01:48:46 -0400
211 scowl (5-2) unstable; urgency=low
213 * Include also the appropriate variant_0 and variant_1 words,
214 to provide the more common spelling alternatives.
216 -- David Coe <davidc@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:48:48 -0400
218 scowl (5-1) unstable; urgency=low
220 * New upstream package (SCOWL) replaces previous upstream sources for
221 wenglish and wbritish; wenglish had been built from a (possibly)
222 non-free source (linux-words), and wbritish had been built from a
223 relatively incomplete source (words extracted from the ispell british
224 dictionary). SCOWL (Spell-Checker Oriented Word Lists) is a
225 collection of English word lists maintained by Kevin Atkinson at
226 http://wordlist.sf.net, is completely Free, is of significantly
227 better quality, and is supported upstream.
228 Thanks to Brian Nelson <nelson@bignachos.com> for suggesting we use
229 the SCOWL wordlists. This source package (scowl) now creates the
230 following binary packages:
231 wamerican, wamerican-small, wamerican-large,
232 wbritish, wbritish-small, wbritish-large,
233 wcanadian, wcanadian-small, wcanadian-large,
235 wenglish (dummy package to install wamerican, for upgrades)
236 Closes: #170490: wenglish: Package contains a non-DFSG-compliant list
237 Closes: #141707: wbritish: seems to be missing some very basic words
238 Closes: #165251: wbritish: Missing word ('behemoth')
239 Closes: #176875: Gullible isn't in the dictionary
240 Closes: #147959: wenglish: Spelling "plebian" is nonstandard
241 Closes: #175906: wenglish: should be called wamerican
242 * My sincere gratitude to Agustin Martin Domingo for paying attention to
243 ispell and the english word lists while I was preoccupied, and for his
244 NMUs during the dictionaries-common transition.
245 Closes: #164257: wbritish: Please update your wbritish package to IDWP new policy
246 Closes: #164260: wenglish: Please update your wenglish package to IDWP new policy
247 * 'Pharoah' is only in the "huge" SCOWL dictionary, which is normally
248 considered unreasonable for spell checking (too many false positives);
249 I suggest you add it to your own personal list, or install the scowl
250 package and create the huge list (or one customized to your needs).
251 If you disagree with upstream's classification of that word, please
252 reopen the bug report with some explanation, and I'll happily forward
254 Closes: #175394: wenglish: missing word 'pharaoh'
256 -- David Coe <davidc@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 22:26:28 -0400
258 wenglish (2.0-2.4) unstable; urgency=low
260 * Just a rebuild to make sure at least dictionaries-common-dev-0.8.4
261 is used,since there was a minor change in the debconf config
262 files to have debconf choices properly sorted. David, no need to
263 change anything in your sources, just make sure you use at least
264 that version. This fix will then propagate the next time you build
265 the package. Sorry for not having asked you about this upload with
268 -- Agustin Martin Domingo <agmartin@debian.org> Fri, 25 Oct 2002 13:37:41 +0200
270 wenglish (2.0-2.3) unstable; urgency=low
272 * Non-Maintainer Upload
273 * This time really added dictionaries-common-dev to 'Build-Depends-Indep'.
274 That was missed previously in (2.0-2.2).
276 -- Agustin Martin Domingo <agmartin@debian.org> Mon, 21 Oct 2002 13:12:14 +0200
278 wenglish (2.0-2.2) unstable; urgency=low
280 * Non-Maintainer Upload
281 * New policy compliant package (closes: #164260)
282 * Some minor changes with respect to package in sourceforge:
284 - Changing 'Pre-Depends: dictionaries-common' to a simple
286 - Added dictionaries-common-dev to 'Build-Depends-Indep'
287 +++ words-american-english.5
288 - Changed '/etc/dictionary' to '/etc/dictionaries-common/words' and
289 'update-alternatives' to 'select-default-wordlist'
291 -- Agustin Martin Domingo <agmartin@debian.org> Mon, 21 Oct 2002 11:52:46 +0200
293 wenglish (2.0-2.1) unstable; urgency=low
295 * Experimental release after the dictionaries policy proposal.
296 * Removed postinst and prerm. So, David, DO NOT REUSE THIS PACKAGE
297 FOR THE OFFICIAL BRANCH.
299 -- Agustín Martín Domingo <agmartin@debian.org> Fri, 30 Nov 2001 17:37:59 +0100
301 wenglish (2.0-2) unstable; urgency=low
303 * added some missing words and their variations. Closes: #108233.
304 * added missing variations of some previously-added words.
305 * updated standards to debian policy 3.5.6.
307 -- David Coe <davidc@debian.org> Fri, 10 Aug 2001 18:20:03 -0400
309 wenglish (2.0-1) unstable; urgency=medium
312 * cnanged version to agree with upstream source version.
313 * included additional documentation from the upstream source.
314 * Updated standards to debian policy 3.5.2.
315 Closes: #80775 "man pages in wrong directory."
316 * fixed prerm to run update-alternatives at the proper time.
317 Closes: #87332 "dictionary alternative and wenglish's prerm"
318 * closing an old bug, was apparently fixed in 1.0-12 (when /etc/dictionary
320 Closes: #35098 "unknown-source: a dangling symlink."
321 * renamed american-english.5 to words-american-english.5, to minimize
322 confusion with similarly-named idict-american-english.5 man page;
323 symlink american-english.5 to words-american-english.5.
324 * added the word "hullabaloo" (in support of ispell/iamerican bug
327 -- David Coe <davidc@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 13:46:29 -0500
329 wenglish (1.0-12) unstable; urgency=low
331 * In postinst, clean up /etc/dictionary and transfer its value into
332 the alternatives system.
334 -- Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpbs@debian.org> Thu, 15 Apr 1999 01:32:53 +0100
336 wenglish (1.0-11) unstable; urgency=low
338 * Update the package's description to match reality.
340 -- Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpbs@debian.org> Tue, 13 Oct 1998 02:32:09 +0100
342 wenglish (1.0-10) unstable; urgency=low
344 * Update standards-version to 2.4.1 (no changes required).
345 * Moved /usr/dict/english to /usr/share/dict/american-english.
346 * Replaced old maintainer scripts with new ones which call
350 -- Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpbs@debian.org> Tue, 29 Sep 1998 12:24:34 +0100
352 wenglish (1.0-9) frozen unstable; urgency=low
354 * Gack. Maybe I should actually -install- the postrm script?
355 (How embarrassing.) Postrm script now installed properly.
356 * Remove leftover half-email from the end of the changelog. (How did
359 * Remove quibble from copyright file; simple lists of words can't
362 -- Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpbs@debian.org> Wed, 8 Apr 1998 03:43:42 +0100
364 wenglish (1.0-8) frozen unstable; urgency=low
366 * Rewrite maintainer scripts, and properly this time (and thus fixes
367 bug 7454 slightly better than last time, but still not completely;
368 that will be done in slink). All cases handled, and it's properly
369 tested. The new scripts used here are intended to go in all the
370 w<language> dictionary packages before the release of hamm so that
371 they all ask questions consistently, and only when they need to.
372 (If all the dictionary packages use these, bug 19600 will be fixed.)
374 * Don't randomize the /etc/dictionary symlink on mass-upgrade.
375 * No longer use relative symlinks between top-level directories.
376 * Don't remove /etc/dictionary symlink, which records the system's
377 default dictionary language, unless the corresponding dictionary is
380 -- Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpbs@debian.org> Sun, 5 Apr 1998 16:08:33 +0100
382 wenglish (1.0-7) unstable; urgency=low
384 * No longer asks whether english should be the default dictionary when
385 upgrading, only on an install. (Attempts to fix bug #7454.)
387 * Add `xylophone' and `migraine' to the word list (first checking
388 them against the Oxford Minidictionary and the Collins Westminster
389 Desk Companion.) (Fixes:bug#9325,#10642)
391 * Added extended package description. (Fixes:bug#3655)
392 * Provide wordlist virtual package. (Fixes:bug#9393)
395 * Undebmaked; now uses my generic debian/rules.
396 * Updated to standards version 2.4.0.0.
398 -- Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpbs@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 1998 13:42:34 +0000
400 wenglish (1.0-6) unstable; urgency=low
402 * New source packaging format.
404 -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org> Sat, 8 Feb 1997 22:16:50 +1100