1 scowl (2020.12.07-1) unstable; urgency=medium
4 * Wordlists are now sorted with the -d option to sort, which only sorts
5 in dictionary order instead of sorting in LC_SORT=C order. (Closes:
7 * Switch to using mk-list instead of custom code for identifying files
9 * Include apostrophe in hunspell affix wordlist; hunspell now supports
10 contractions (Closes: #491638)
12 -- Don Armstrong <don@debian.org> Thu, 21 Oct 2021 15:46:29 -0700
14 scowl (2019.10.06-1) unstable; urgency=medium
16 * New upstream release (Closes: #952736)
17 * Deprecate reprized for reprised (Closes: #952653)
18 * Use up to 70 wordlists for hunspell (Closes: #933544)
19 * Distribute all scowl files as utf-8 (Closes: #775480)
21 -- Don Armstrong <don@debian.org> Sat, 29 Feb 2020 20:07:46 -0800
23 scowl (2018.04.16-1) unstable; urgency=medium
25 * New upstream release
26 * Use $(DEB_VERSION) for hunspel-en-{us,au,ca} insead of
27 $(DEB_VERSION_UPSTREAM) (Closes: #884921)
28 * Fix failure to build reproducibly with new debhelper versions due to
29 wrong install: and build: targets in Makefile. (Closes: #890618)
31 * Call install-myspell to register the hunspell dictionaries (Closes:
33 * All of the packages we produce are Multi-Arch: foreign (Closes: #752589)
34 * Update standard-version; no changes.
36 -- Don Armstrong <don@debian.org> Tue, 24 Apr 2018 16:08:24 -0700
38 scowl (2017.08.24-1) unstable; urgency=medium
40 * New upstream release
41 * Move sangs (plural of an obscure plant) to -95 (Closes: #861025).
42 Thanks to Josh Triplett.
43 * variant_0 and variant_1 are now _1 and _2; update rules to properly
44 include them (Closes: #867586). Thanks to 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson.
45 * build hunspell-en-{us,au,ca} from here. The versions in
46 libreoffice-dictionaries are built from here anyway (closes: #795159,
47 #874519, #879199). Thanks to Rene Engelhard for the patch.
49 -- Don Armstrong <don@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2017 12:09:03 -0700
51 scowl (2017.01.22-1) experimental; urgency=low
53 * New upstream release
54 * Include the proper variant spelling into the proper language (Closes:
55 #659841). Thanks to Drew Parsons.
56 * Sort using LC_ALL=C to make builds reproducible. (Closes: #791851).
57 Thanks to Reiner Herrmann.
58 * Remove non-word mys (Closes: #858961). Thanks to Josh Triplett.
59 * Switch to dh $@ style packaging
60 * Switch to quilt packaging
62 -- Don Armstrong <don@debian.org> Sun, 09 Apr 2017 15:25:00 -0700
64 scowl (7.1-1) unstable; urgency=low
66 * New upstream release
67 - Move dieing to english-words.80 (Closes: #515896)
68 - Modularises is in english-words.80 (Closes: #634824)
69 * Remove uniprocessorunix, thanks to Dean Menezes (Closes: #530456)
70 * afterward and afterwards are both perfectly legitimate english words;
71 add them to english-words.10 (Closes: #564032)
72 * Add unices, unixen to hacker list; add unixes to english-words.95,
73 thanks to Dean Menezes (Closes: #530457)
74 * Add analyses (plural of analysis) (Closes: #570718). Thanks to Benoit
76 * Deprecate irregardless slightly (Closes: #584076)
77 * Stick prepend into american words even though it is computer
78 jargon (Closes: #402055)
80 -- Don Armstrong <don@debian.org> Wed, 12 Oct 2011 14:44:02 -0700
82 scowl (6-3) unstable; urgency=low
84 * Encode in UTF-8, thanks to Marc Fournier (Closes: #470463)
85 * Kill off triple letter misspellings, thanks to Justin B Rye (Closes:
87 * Fix supr{essed,ising} issues in english-words.95, thanks to Jidanni
89 * Sanitize the makefile to not be so repetitive
90 * Add -insane package to include the .95 wordlists
91 * Include hacker special wordlist in the insane dictionaries
93 * Update standards version
95 -- Don Armstrong <don@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 2009 23:59:43 -0700
97 scowl (6-2.3) unstable; urgency=low
99 * Taking over this package (Closes: #487734)
100 * Fix the building of -huge binaries (Closes: #346113) [Thanks to Jason
101 Rhinelander <jagerman@jagerman.com> for a patch, though I actually
102 implemented myself without seeing his.]
104 -- Don Armstrong <don@debian.org> Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:16:08 -0700
106 scowl (6-2.2) unstable; urgency=low
108 * Non-maintainer upload.
109 * Make wamerican no longer depend on dictionaries-common, while
110 using its features if present: (Closes: #487977).
111 - wamerican.links: Install /usr/share/dict/words link to
113 - wamerican.post{inst,rm}: Run dictionaries-common stuff only
115 - wamerican.config: Check that dictionaries-common is installed
116 and a recent version (having elanguages support) before trying
118 - debian/rules: Do not auto-generate maintainer scripts for
119 wamerican, but use the new hardcoded ones. Split
120 installdeb-wordlist stuff for wamerican and the rest of the
121 wordlists, moving both to the install target.
122 - debian/control: Remove dictionaries-common dependency and
123 include a conflicts against dictionaries-common (<< 0.98) where
124 /usr/share/dict/words link diversion is included.
126 - Bumped Standards-Version to 3.7.3. No changes needed.
127 - Moved debhelper dependency from Build-Depends-Indep to
128 Build-Depends. debhelper is required to run the clean target
129 of debian/rules (Policy Manual, section 7.6).
131 -- Agustin Martin Domingo <agmartin@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:24:26 +0200
133 scowl (6-2.1) unstable; urgency=low
135 * Non-maintainer upload.
136 * Bumped Standards-Version to 3.7.2. No changes needed.
137 * debian/compat now is 5.
138 * Apply patch from Tom Parker <debian@tevp.net>, to stop Scowl generated
139 packages to erronously depend on debconf twice, and to allow for
140 debconf-2.0 as an alternate, thus blocking the cedebconf transition
143 -- Amaya Rodrigo Sastre <amaya@debian.org> Sat, 27 Jan 2007 18:38:03 +0100
145 scowl (6-2) unstable; urgency=low
147 * debian/rules: remove a ${!VAR} bashism; replace with eval(...)
148 Closes: #207102 scowl: debian/rules script contains bashisms
150 -- David Coe <davidc@debian.org> Fri, 14 Oct 2005 22:00:22 -0400
152 scowl (6-1) unstable; urgency=low
154 * New upstream release.
155 Closes: #333207 wamerican-large: new upstream release 6 available
156 * debian/rules and debian/control: Added -huge versions of the
157 american, canadian, and british word lists. Upstream word lists are
158 now better organized; we take advantage of that by adding the new
159 size "40" word lists to the standard lists, the size "55" word lists
160 to the -large lists, and the size "80" word lists to the (new) -huge
162 Closes: #317422 dictionaries-common: sightlines/metallicity
163 "Sightlines" is now in the -huge lists; "metallicity" is only in the
164 upstream size "95" lists, so (by my policy) even the -huge lists
165 won't include it. If you want that, and all the other really odd
166 words, please install and use the Debian "scowl" package.
167 * Added "Debian" and "Debian's" to english-proper-names.50, which
168 gets them into the standard, -large, and -huge lists.
169 If Microsoft is there (it is), we should be too ;).
170 Closes: #327749: wamerican: should include "debian" in wordlist
172 - standards version 3.6.2 (no changes required)
173 - removed the 'wenglish' dummy package
174 Closes: #322072 wenglish: Dummy package still needed?
175 Closes: #286583 wenglish: typo in package description
176 * debian/copyright: updated copyright (some additions from
177 latest upstream README).
179 -- David Coe <davidc@debian.org> Fri, 14 Oct 2005 01:00:03 -0400
181 scowl (5-4) unstable; urgency=low
183 * debian/control: depend [and build-depend] on newer
184 dictionaries-common[-dev] (>=0.20).
185 Closes: #232166 "Please update your ... package(s) to new .config system"
186 * debian/control; bump standards-version; no changes required.
187 * debian/wenglish.preinst: removed -- this previously-implemented half-fix
189 Closes: #216397 "debconf oops"
190 * debian/control: add missing debconf dependencies.
192 -- David Coe <davidc@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 2004 02:38:32 -0500
194 scowl (5-3) unstable; urgency=low
196 * corrected a typo/thinko in the scowl pacakge description;
197 thanks to Leonardo Rochael Almeida for noticing and reporting it.
198 Closes: #201564: s/wenglish/wbritish/ in package description
199 * added wenglish.preinst, to remove the obsolete "wenglish"
200 debconf choice, now that wamerican has replaced wenglish.
201 See also dictionaries-common bug #200098, which explains
202 why this solution is not perfect.
203 Closes: #202570: typo in debconf prompt
204 * standards version 3.6.0; converted this changelog to UTF-8.
206 -- David Coe <davidc@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jul 2003 01:48:46 -0400
208 scowl (5-2) unstable; urgency=low
210 * Include also the appropriate variant_0 and variant_1 words,
211 to provide the more common spelling alternatives.
213 -- David Coe <davidc@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:48:48 -0400
215 scowl (5-1) unstable; urgency=low
217 * New upstream package (SCOWL) replaces previous upstream sources for
218 wenglish and wbritish; wenglish had been built from a (possibly)
219 non-free source (linux-words), and wbritish had been built from a
220 relatively incomplete source (words extracted from the ispell british
221 dictionary). SCOWL (Spell-Checker Oriented Word Lists) is a
222 collection of English word lists maintained by Kevin Atkinson at
223 http://wordlist.sf.net, is completely Free, is of significantly
224 better quality, and is supported upstream.
225 Thanks to Brian Nelson <nelson@bignachos.com> for suggesting we use
226 the SCOWL wordlists. This source package (scowl) now creates the
227 following binary packages:
228 wamerican, wamerican-small, wamerican-large,
229 wbritish, wbritish-small, wbritish-large,
230 wcanadian, wcanadian-small, wcanadian-large,
232 wenglish (dummy package to install wamerican, for upgrades)
233 Closes: #170490: wenglish: Package contains a non-DFSG-compliant list
234 Closes: #141707: wbritish: seems to be missing some very basic words
235 Closes: #165251: wbritish: Missing word ('behemoth')
236 Closes: #176875: Gullible isn't in the dictionary
237 Closes: #147959: wenglish: Spelling "plebian" is nonstandard
238 Closes: #175906: wenglish: should be called wamerican
239 * My sincere gratitude to Agustin Martin Domingo for paying attention to
240 ispell and the english word lists while I was preoccupied, and for his
241 NMUs during the dictionaries-common transition.
242 Closes: #164257: wbritish: Please update your wbritish package to IDWP new policy
243 Closes: #164260: wenglish: Please update your wenglish package to IDWP new policy
244 * 'Pharoah' is only in the "huge" SCOWL dictionary, which is normally
245 considered unreasonable for spell checking (too many false positives);
246 I suggest you add it to your own personal list, or install the scowl
247 package and create the huge list (or one customized to your needs).
248 If you disagree with upstream's classification of that word, please
249 reopen the bug report with some explanation, and I'll happily forward
251 Closes: #175394: wenglish: missing word 'pharaoh'
253 -- David Coe <davidc@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 22:26:28 -0400
255 wenglish (2.0-2.4) unstable; urgency=low
257 * Just a rebuild to make sure at least dictionaries-common-dev-0.8.4
258 is used,since there was a minor change in the debconf config
259 files to have debconf choices properly sorted. David, no need to
260 change anything in your sources, just make sure you use at least
261 that version. This fix will then propagate the next time you build
262 the package. Sorry for not having asked you about this upload with
265 -- Agustin Martin Domingo <agmartin@debian.org> Fri, 25 Oct 2002 13:37:41 +0200
267 wenglish (2.0-2.3) unstable; urgency=low
269 * Non-Maintainer Upload
270 * This time really added dictionaries-common-dev to 'Build-Depends-Indep'.
271 That was missed previously in (2.0-2.2).
273 -- Agustin Martin Domingo <agmartin@debian.org> Mon, 21 Oct 2002 13:12:14 +0200
275 wenglish (2.0-2.2) unstable; urgency=low
277 * Non-Maintainer Upload
278 * New policy compliant package (closes: #164260)
279 * Some minor changes with respect to package in sourceforge:
281 - Changing 'Pre-Depends: dictionaries-common' to a simple
283 - Added dictionaries-common-dev to 'Build-Depends-Indep'
284 +++ words-american-english.5
285 - Changed '/etc/dictionary' to '/etc/dictionaries-common/words' and
286 'update-alternatives' to 'select-default-wordlist'
288 -- Agustin Martin Domingo <agmartin@debian.org> Mon, 21 Oct 2002 11:52:46 +0200
290 wenglish (2.0-2.1) unstable; urgency=low
292 * Experimental release after the dictionaries policy proposal.
293 * Removed postinst and prerm. So, David, DO NOT REUSE THIS PACKAGE
294 FOR THE OFFICIAL BRANCH.
296 -- Agustín Martín Domingo <agmartin@debian.org> Fri, 30 Nov 2001 17:37:59 +0100
298 wenglish (2.0-2) unstable; urgency=low
300 * added some missing words and their variations. Closes: #108233.
301 * added missing variations of some previously-added words.
302 * updated standards to debian policy 3.5.6.
304 -- David Coe <davidc@debian.org> Fri, 10 Aug 2001 18:20:03 -0400
306 wenglish (2.0-1) unstable; urgency=medium
309 * cnanged version to agree with upstream source version.
310 * included additional documentation from the upstream source.
311 * Updated standards to debian policy 3.5.2.
312 Closes: #80775 "man pages in wrong directory."
313 * fixed prerm to run update-alternatives at the proper time.
314 Closes: #87332 "dictionary alternative and wenglish's prerm"
315 * closing an old bug, was apparently fixed in 1.0-12 (when /etc/dictionary
317 Closes: #35098 "unknown-source: a dangling symlink."
318 * renamed american-english.5 to words-american-english.5, to minimize
319 confusion with similarly-named idict-american-english.5 man page;
320 symlink american-english.5 to words-american-english.5.
321 * added the word "hullabaloo" (in support of ispell/iamerican bug
324 -- David Coe <davidc@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 13:46:29 -0500
326 wenglish (1.0-12) unstable; urgency=low
328 * In postinst, clean up /etc/dictionary and transfer its value into
329 the alternatives system.
331 -- Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpbs@debian.org> Thu, 15 Apr 1999 01:32:53 +0100
333 wenglish (1.0-11) unstable; urgency=low
335 * Update the package's description to match reality.
337 -- Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpbs@debian.org> Tue, 13 Oct 1998 02:32:09 +0100
339 wenglish (1.0-10) unstable; urgency=low
341 * Update standards-version to 2.4.1 (no changes required).
342 * Moved /usr/dict/english to /usr/share/dict/american-english.
343 * Replaced old maintainer scripts with new ones which call
347 -- Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpbs@debian.org> Tue, 29 Sep 1998 12:24:34 +0100
349 wenglish (1.0-9) frozen unstable; urgency=low
351 * Gack. Maybe I should actually -install- the postrm script?
352 (How embarrassing.) Postrm script now installed properly.
353 * Remove leftover half-email from the end of the changelog. (How did
356 * Remove quibble from copyright file; simple lists of words can't
359 -- Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpbs@debian.org> Wed, 8 Apr 1998 03:43:42 +0100
361 wenglish (1.0-8) frozen unstable; urgency=low
363 * Rewrite maintainer scripts, and properly this time (and thus fixes
364 bug 7454 slightly better than last time, but still not completely;
365 that will be done in slink). All cases handled, and it's properly
366 tested. The new scripts used here are intended to go in all the
367 w<language> dictionary packages before the release of hamm so that
368 they all ask questions consistently, and only when they need to.
369 (If all the dictionary packages use these, bug 19600 will be fixed.)
371 * Don't randomize the /etc/dictionary symlink on mass-upgrade.
372 * No longer use relative symlinks between top-level directories.
373 * Don't remove /etc/dictionary symlink, which records the system's
374 default dictionary language, unless the corresponding dictionary is
377 -- Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpbs@debian.org> Sun, 5 Apr 1998 16:08:33 +0100
379 wenglish (1.0-7) unstable; urgency=low
381 * No longer asks whether english should be the default dictionary when
382 upgrading, only on an install. (Attempts to fix bug #7454.)
384 * Add `xylophone' and `migraine' to the word list (first checking
385 them against the Oxford Minidictionary and the Collins Westminster
386 Desk Companion.) (Fixes:bug#9325,#10642)
388 * Added extended package description. (Fixes:bug#3655)
389 * Provide wordlist virtual package. (Fixes:bug#9393)
392 * Undebmaked; now uses my generic debian/rules.
393 * Updated to standards version 2.4.0.0.
395 -- Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpbs@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 1998 13:42:34 +0000
397 wenglish (1.0-6) unstable; urgency=low
399 * New source packaging format.
401 -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org> Sat, 8 Feb 1997 22:16:50 +1100