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