1 scowl (2020.12.07-2) unstable; urgency=medium
3 * Separate uniqifying from sort; users (and other plurals with
4 contractions) missing from wordlist because of this. (Closes:
7 -- Don Armstrong <don@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jan 2022 21:16:40 -0800
9 scowl (2020.12.07-1) unstable; urgency=medium
11 * New upstream release
12 * Wordlists are now sorted with the -d option to sort, which only sorts
13 in dictionary order instead of sorting in LC_SORT=C order. (Closes:
15 * Switch to using mk-list instead of custom code for identifying files
17 * Include apostrophe in hunspell affix wordlist; hunspell now supports
18 contractions (Closes: #491638)
20 -- Don Armstrong <don@debian.org> Thu, 21 Oct 2021 15:46:29 -0700
22 scowl (2019.10.06-1) unstable; urgency=medium
24 * New upstream release (Closes: #952736)
25 * Deprecate reprized for reprised (Closes: #952653)
26 * Use up to 70 wordlists for hunspell (Closes: #933544)
27 * Distribute all scowl files as utf-8 (Closes: #775480)
29 -- Don Armstrong <don@debian.org> Sat, 29 Feb 2020 20:07:46 -0800
31 scowl (2018.04.16-1) unstable; urgency=medium
33 * New upstream release
34 * Use $(DEB_VERSION) for hunspel-en-{us,au,ca} insead of
35 $(DEB_VERSION_UPSTREAM) (Closes: #884921)
36 * Fix failure to build reproducibly with new debhelper versions due to
37 wrong install: and build: targets in Makefile. (Closes: #890618)
39 * Call install-myspell to register the hunspell dictionaries (Closes:
41 * All of the packages we produce are Multi-Arch: foreign (Closes: #752589)
42 * Update standard-version; no changes.
44 -- Don Armstrong <don@debian.org> Tue, 24 Apr 2018 16:08:24 -0700
46 scowl (2017.08.24-1) unstable; urgency=medium
48 * New upstream release
49 * Move sangs (plural of an obscure plant) to -95 (Closes: #861025).
50 Thanks to Josh Triplett.
51 * variant_0 and variant_1 are now _1 and _2; update rules to properly
52 include them (Closes: #867586). Thanks to 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson.
53 * build hunspell-en-{us,au,ca} from here. The versions in
54 libreoffice-dictionaries are built from here anyway (closes: #795159,
55 #874519, #879199). Thanks to Rene Engelhard for the patch.
57 -- Don Armstrong <don@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2017 12:09:03 -0700
59 scowl (2017.01.22-1) experimental; urgency=low
61 * New upstream release
62 * Include the proper variant spelling into the proper language (Closes:
63 #659841). Thanks to Drew Parsons.
64 * Sort using LC_ALL=C to make builds reproducible. (Closes: #791851).
65 Thanks to Reiner Herrmann.
66 * Remove non-word mys (Closes: #858961). Thanks to Josh Triplett.
67 * Switch to dh $@ style packaging
68 * Switch to quilt packaging
70 -- Don Armstrong <don@debian.org> Sun, 09 Apr 2017 15:25:00 -0700
72 scowl (7.1-1) unstable; urgency=low
74 * New upstream release
75 - Move dieing to english-words.80 (Closes: #515896)
76 - Modularises is in english-words.80 (Closes: #634824)
77 * Remove uniprocessorunix, thanks to Dean Menezes (Closes: #530456)
78 * afterward and afterwards are both perfectly legitimate english words;
79 add them to english-words.10 (Closes: #564032)
80 * Add unices, unixen to hacker list; add unixes to english-words.95,
81 thanks to Dean Menezes (Closes: #530457)
82 * Add analyses (plural of analysis) (Closes: #570718). Thanks to Benoit
84 * Deprecate irregardless slightly (Closes: #584076)
85 * Stick prepend into american words even though it is computer
86 jargon (Closes: #402055)
88 -- Don Armstrong <don@debian.org> Wed, 12 Oct 2011 14:44:02 -0700
90 scowl (6-3) unstable; urgency=low
92 * Encode in UTF-8, thanks to Marc Fournier (Closes: #470463)
93 * Kill off triple letter misspellings, thanks to Justin B Rye (Closes:
95 * Fix supr{essed,ising} issues in english-words.95, thanks to Jidanni
97 * Sanitize the makefile to not be so repetitive
98 * Add -insane package to include the .95 wordlists
99 * Include hacker special wordlist in the insane dictionaries
101 * Update standards version
103 -- Don Armstrong <don@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 2009 23:59:43 -0700
105 scowl (6-2.3) unstable; urgency=low
107 * Taking over this package (Closes: #487734)
108 * Fix the building of -huge binaries (Closes: #346113) [Thanks to Jason
109 Rhinelander <jagerman@jagerman.com> for a patch, though I actually
110 implemented myself without seeing his.]
112 -- Don Armstrong <don@debian.org> Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:16:08 -0700
114 scowl (6-2.2) unstable; urgency=low
116 * Non-maintainer upload.
117 * Make wamerican no longer depend on dictionaries-common, while
118 using its features if present: (Closes: #487977).
119 - wamerican.links: Install /usr/share/dict/words link to
121 - wamerican.post{inst,rm}: Run dictionaries-common stuff only
123 - wamerican.config: Check that dictionaries-common is installed
124 and a recent version (having elanguages support) before trying
126 - debian/rules: Do not auto-generate maintainer scripts for
127 wamerican, but use the new hardcoded ones. Split
128 installdeb-wordlist stuff for wamerican and the rest of the
129 wordlists, moving both to the install target.
130 - debian/control: Remove dictionaries-common dependency and
131 include a conflicts against dictionaries-common (<< 0.98) where
132 /usr/share/dict/words link diversion is included.
134 - Bumped Standards-Version to 3.7.3. No changes needed.
135 - Moved debhelper dependency from Build-Depends-Indep to
136 Build-Depends. debhelper is required to run the clean target
137 of debian/rules (Policy Manual, section 7.6).
139 -- Agustin Martin Domingo <agmartin@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:24:26 +0200
141 scowl (6-2.1) unstable; urgency=low
143 * Non-maintainer upload.
144 * Bumped Standards-Version to 3.7.2. No changes needed.
145 * debian/compat now is 5.
146 * Apply patch from Tom Parker <debian@tevp.net>, to stop Scowl generated
147 packages to erronously depend on debconf twice, and to allow for
148 debconf-2.0 as an alternate, thus blocking the cedebconf transition
151 -- Amaya Rodrigo Sastre <amaya@debian.org> Sat, 27 Jan 2007 18:38:03 +0100
153 scowl (6-2) unstable; urgency=low
155 * debian/rules: remove a ${!VAR} bashism; replace with eval(...)
156 Closes: #207102 scowl: debian/rules script contains bashisms
158 -- David Coe <davidc@debian.org> Fri, 14 Oct 2005 22:00:22 -0400
160 scowl (6-1) unstable; urgency=low
162 * New upstream release.
163 Closes: #333207 wamerican-large: new upstream release 6 available
164 * debian/rules and debian/control: Added -huge versions of the
165 american, canadian, and british word lists. Upstream word lists are
166 now better organized; we take advantage of that by adding the new
167 size "40" word lists to the standard lists, the size "55" word lists
168 to the -large lists, and the size "80" word lists to the (new) -huge
170 Closes: #317422 dictionaries-common: sightlines/metallicity
171 "Sightlines" is now in the -huge lists; "metallicity" is only in the
172 upstream size "95" lists, so (by my policy) even the -huge lists
173 won't include it. If you want that, and all the other really odd
174 words, please install and use the Debian "scowl" package.
175 * Added "Debian" and "Debian's" to english-proper-names.50, which
176 gets them into the standard, -large, and -huge lists.
177 If Microsoft is there (it is), we should be too ;).
178 Closes: #327749: wamerican: should include "debian" in wordlist
180 - standards version 3.6.2 (no changes required)
181 - removed the 'wenglish' dummy package
182 Closes: #322072 wenglish: Dummy package still needed?
183 Closes: #286583 wenglish: typo in package description
184 * debian/copyright: updated copyright (some additions from
185 latest upstream README).
187 -- David Coe <davidc@debian.org> Fri, 14 Oct 2005 01:00:03 -0400
189 scowl (5-4) unstable; urgency=low
191 * debian/control: depend [and build-depend] on newer
192 dictionaries-common[-dev] (>=0.20).
193 Closes: #232166 "Please update your ... package(s) to new .config system"
194 * debian/control; bump standards-version; no changes required.
195 * debian/wenglish.preinst: removed -- this previously-implemented half-fix
197 Closes: #216397 "debconf oops"
198 * debian/control: add missing debconf dependencies.
200 -- David Coe <davidc@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 2004 02:38:32 -0500
202 scowl (5-3) unstable; urgency=low
204 * corrected a typo/thinko in the scowl pacakge description;
205 thanks to Leonardo Rochael Almeida for noticing and reporting it.
206 Closes: #201564: s/wenglish/wbritish/ in package description
207 * added wenglish.preinst, to remove the obsolete "wenglish"
208 debconf choice, now that wamerican has replaced wenglish.
209 See also dictionaries-common bug #200098, which explains
210 why this solution is not perfect.
211 Closes: #202570: typo in debconf prompt
212 * standards version 3.6.0; converted this changelog to UTF-8.
214 -- David Coe <davidc@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jul 2003 01:48:46 -0400
216 scowl (5-2) unstable; urgency=low
218 * Include also the appropriate variant_0 and variant_1 words,
219 to provide the more common spelling alternatives.
221 -- David Coe <davidc@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:48:48 -0400
223 scowl (5-1) unstable; urgency=low
225 * New upstream package (SCOWL) replaces previous upstream sources for
226 wenglish and wbritish; wenglish had been built from a (possibly)
227 non-free source (linux-words), and wbritish had been built from a
228 relatively incomplete source (words extracted from the ispell british
229 dictionary). SCOWL (Spell-Checker Oriented Word Lists) is a
230 collection of English word lists maintained by Kevin Atkinson at
231 http://wordlist.sf.net, is completely Free, is of significantly
232 better quality, and is supported upstream.
233 Thanks to Brian Nelson <nelson@bignachos.com> for suggesting we use
234 the SCOWL wordlists. This source package (scowl) now creates the
235 following binary packages:
236 wamerican, wamerican-small, wamerican-large,
237 wbritish, wbritish-small, wbritish-large,
238 wcanadian, wcanadian-small, wcanadian-large,
240 wenglish (dummy package to install wamerican, for upgrades)
241 Closes: #170490: wenglish: Package contains a non-DFSG-compliant list
242 Closes: #141707: wbritish: seems to be missing some very basic words
243 Closes: #165251: wbritish: Missing word ('behemoth')
244 Closes: #176875: Gullible isn't in the dictionary
245 Closes: #147959: wenglish: Spelling "plebian" is nonstandard
246 Closes: #175906: wenglish: should be called wamerican
247 * My sincere gratitude to Agustin Martin Domingo for paying attention to
248 ispell and the english word lists while I was preoccupied, and for his
249 NMUs during the dictionaries-common transition.
250 Closes: #164257: wbritish: Please update your wbritish package to IDWP new policy
251 Closes: #164260: wenglish: Please update your wenglish package to IDWP new policy
252 * 'Pharoah' is only in the "huge" SCOWL dictionary, which is normally
253 considered unreasonable for spell checking (too many false positives);
254 I suggest you add it to your own personal list, or install the scowl
255 package and create the huge list (or one customized to your needs).
256 If you disagree with upstream's classification of that word, please
257 reopen the bug report with some explanation, and I'll happily forward
259 Closes: #175394: wenglish: missing word 'pharaoh'
261 -- David Coe <davidc@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 22:26:28 -0400
263 wenglish (2.0-2.4) unstable; urgency=low
265 * Just a rebuild to make sure at least dictionaries-common-dev-0.8.4
266 is used,since there was a minor change in the debconf config
267 files to have debconf choices properly sorted. David, no need to
268 change anything in your sources, just make sure you use at least
269 that version. This fix will then propagate the next time you build
270 the package. Sorry for not having asked you about this upload with
273 -- Agustin Martin Domingo <agmartin@debian.org> Fri, 25 Oct 2002 13:37:41 +0200
275 wenglish (2.0-2.3) unstable; urgency=low
277 * Non-Maintainer Upload
278 * This time really added dictionaries-common-dev to 'Build-Depends-Indep'.
279 That was missed previously in (2.0-2.2).
281 -- Agustin Martin Domingo <agmartin@debian.org> Mon, 21 Oct 2002 13:12:14 +0200
283 wenglish (2.0-2.2) unstable; urgency=low
285 * Non-Maintainer Upload
286 * New policy compliant package (closes: #164260)
287 * Some minor changes with respect to package in sourceforge:
289 - Changing 'Pre-Depends: dictionaries-common' to a simple
291 - Added dictionaries-common-dev to 'Build-Depends-Indep'
292 +++ words-american-english.5
293 - Changed '/etc/dictionary' to '/etc/dictionaries-common/words' and
294 'update-alternatives' to 'select-default-wordlist'
296 -- Agustin Martin Domingo <agmartin@debian.org> Mon, 21 Oct 2002 11:52:46 +0200
298 wenglish (2.0-2.1) unstable; urgency=low
300 * Experimental release after the dictionaries policy proposal.
301 * Removed postinst and prerm. So, David, DO NOT REUSE THIS PACKAGE
302 FOR THE OFFICIAL BRANCH.
304 -- Agustín Martín Domingo <agmartin@debian.org> Fri, 30 Nov 2001 17:37:59 +0100
306 wenglish (2.0-2) unstable; urgency=low
308 * added some missing words and their variations. Closes: #108233.
309 * added missing variations of some previously-added words.
310 * updated standards to debian policy 3.5.6.
312 -- David Coe <davidc@debian.org> Fri, 10 Aug 2001 18:20:03 -0400
314 wenglish (2.0-1) unstable; urgency=medium
317 * cnanged version to agree with upstream source version.
318 * included additional documentation from the upstream source.
319 * Updated standards to debian policy 3.5.2.
320 Closes: #80775 "man pages in wrong directory."
321 * fixed prerm to run update-alternatives at the proper time.
322 Closes: #87332 "dictionary alternative and wenglish's prerm"
323 * closing an old bug, was apparently fixed in 1.0-12 (when /etc/dictionary
325 Closes: #35098 "unknown-source: a dangling symlink."
326 * renamed american-english.5 to words-american-english.5, to minimize
327 confusion with similarly-named idict-american-english.5 man page;
328 symlink american-english.5 to words-american-english.5.
329 * added the word "hullabaloo" (in support of ispell/iamerican bug
332 -- David Coe <davidc@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 13:46:29 -0500
334 wenglish (1.0-12) unstable; urgency=low
336 * In postinst, clean up /etc/dictionary and transfer its value into
337 the alternatives system.
339 -- Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpbs@debian.org> Thu, 15 Apr 1999 01:32:53 +0100
341 wenglish (1.0-11) unstable; urgency=low
343 * Update the package's description to match reality.
345 -- Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpbs@debian.org> Tue, 13 Oct 1998 02:32:09 +0100
347 wenglish (1.0-10) unstable; urgency=low
349 * Update standards-version to 2.4.1 (no changes required).
350 * Moved /usr/dict/english to /usr/share/dict/american-english.
351 * Replaced old maintainer scripts with new ones which call
355 -- Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpbs@debian.org> Tue, 29 Sep 1998 12:24:34 +0100
357 wenglish (1.0-9) frozen unstable; urgency=low
359 * Gack. Maybe I should actually -install- the postrm script?
360 (How embarrassing.) Postrm script now installed properly.
361 * Remove leftover half-email from the end of the changelog. (How did
364 * Remove quibble from copyright file; simple lists of words can't
367 -- Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpbs@debian.org> Wed, 8 Apr 1998 03:43:42 +0100
369 wenglish (1.0-8) frozen unstable; urgency=low
371 * Rewrite maintainer scripts, and properly this time (and thus fixes
372 bug 7454 slightly better than last time, but still not completely;
373 that will be done in slink). All cases handled, and it's properly
374 tested. The new scripts used here are intended to go in all the
375 w<language> dictionary packages before the release of hamm so that
376 they all ask questions consistently, and only when they need to.
377 (If all the dictionary packages use these, bug 19600 will be fixed.)
379 * Don't randomize the /etc/dictionary symlink on mass-upgrade.
380 * No longer use relative symlinks between top-level directories.
381 * Don't remove /etc/dictionary symlink, which records the system's
382 default dictionary language, unless the corresponding dictionary is
385 -- Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpbs@debian.org> Sun, 5 Apr 1998 16:08:33 +0100
387 wenglish (1.0-7) unstable; urgency=low
389 * No longer asks whether english should be the default dictionary when
390 upgrading, only on an install. (Attempts to fix bug #7454.)
392 * Add `xylophone' and `migraine' to the word list (first checking
393 them against the Oxford Minidictionary and the Collins Westminster
394 Desk Companion.) (Fixes:bug#9325,#10642)
396 * Added extended package description. (Fixes:bug#3655)
397 * Provide wordlist virtual package. (Fixes:bug#9393)
400 * Undebmaked; now uses my generic debian/rules.
401 * Updated to standards version 2.4.0.0.
403 -- Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpbs@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 1998 13:42:34 +0000
405 wenglish (1.0-6) unstable; urgency=low
407 * New source packaging format.
409 -- Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org> Sat, 8 Feb 1997 22:16:50 +1100