Dear Maintainer,

About two weeks ago on a fresh install of Debian Bookworm
from a daily installer build I
came accross a dictionary error related to the
installation of synaptic. The relavent output is
--------

Setting up synaptic (0.91.2) ...
Processing triggers for dictionaries-common (1.29.3) ...
ispell-autobuildhash: Processing 'american' dict.
ispell-autobuildhash: Processing 'brasilero' dict.
ispell-autobuildhash: Processing 'british' dict.
ispell-autobuildhash: Processing 'catala' dict.
ispell-autobuildhash: Processing 'danish' dict.
ispell-autobuildhash: Processing 'espa-nol' dict.
ispell-autobuildhash: Processing 'lietuviu' dict.
ispell-autobuildhash: Processing 'ngerman' dict.
ispell-autobuildhash: Processing 'polish' dict.
ispell-autobuildhash: Processing 'portugues' dict.
ispell-autobuildhash: Processing 'russian' dict.

Word '��� ��' contains illegal characters.
ispell-autobuildhash: Processing 'swiss' dict.

--------

It looks to be an error in a dictionary file
but I never selected any language except English so
this is default behavior and as far as I can
tell I do not even have the russian dictionary
installed at all.

My best guess is that this is a issue in
dictionaries-common/dc-deconf-select.pl and/or
related files related to dpkg triggers.

If you'd like more details about this just suggest
what extra info you'd like and I can try to
supply it.

Cheers,
Jason

El mié, 11 ene 2023 a las 17:15, Jason Lee Quinn
(<jason.lee.quinn+debian@gmail.com>) escribió:

HI,

This is a harmless message during hash creation for russian ispell
dict. Nothing to worry about.

By the way, you have all those ispell dicts installed although you may
have not explicitly installed them.

Thanks for your contribution to Debian

Thank you for the reply.

If these dictionaries are installed,
where are they located? I've searched
/usr/lib/ispell and many other places can only find
american and british dictionaries on my machine.

Also where does the "contains illegal characters" message
actually come from? Whatever the source of that messgae,
I'm having trouble tracking it down. A techincal explaination
about why the message is harmless would also be interesting
for me. Perhaps the message itself and the logic that produces
it could be improved to provide a nicer user experience.

El sáb, 14 ene 2023 a las 15:39, Jason Lee Quinn
(<jason.lee.quinn+debian@gmail.com>) escribió:

Hi,

You should find relevant files under different dirs. In one of my boxes

$ dir /usr/lib/ispell/ /usr/share/ispell/ /var/lib/ispell/
/var/lib/dictionaries-common/ispell/

/usr/lib/ispell/:
american.aff    castellano.hash  english.aff    espanol.hash
spanish.hash
american.hash    default.aff     espa~nol.aff    README.select-ispell
castellano.aff    default.hash     espa~nol.hash    spanish.aff

/usr/share/ispell/:
american.med+.mwl.gz  american.mwl.gz  english.aff  espa~nol.mwl.gz

/var/lib/dictionaries-common/ispell/:
iamerican  ispanish

/var/lib/ispell/:
american.compat  american.hash    american.remove  espa~nol.compat
espa~nol.hash  espa~nol.remove  README

If there is no trace of those dicts in your dirs, synaptic is
upgrading something else (A virtual machine?)

Munched word in line 39 of original russian ispell dict contains
whitespace, which is allowed only as word separator, not in the middle
of a word. Then ispell (and aspell) complains about it and skips that
word, that is the message. This is harmless because its only result is
that word is skipped.

Attached patch should strip that word before package is built, thus
making the message go away. I am reassigning this bug report to
irussian (I am also uploader for it)  and will upload a package with
this fix unless maintainer disagree.

Thanks again for your feedback.

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
rus-ispell, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 1028473@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Agustin Martin Domingo <agmartin@debian.org> (supplier of updated rus-ispell package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2023 20:16:39 +0100
Source: rus-ispell
Architecture: source
Version: 0.99g5-29
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Mikhail Gusarov <dottedmag@debian.org>
Changed-By: Agustin Martin Domingo <agmartin@debian.org>
Closes: 1028473
Changes:
 rus-ispell (0.99g5-29) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   [ Debian Janitor ]
   * debian/copyright: use spaces rather than tabs to start continuation lines.
   * Update lintian override info to new format:
     + debian/source/lintian-overrides: line 1-2
     + debian/irussian.lintian-overrides: line 1-2
     + debian/aspell-ru.lintian-overrides: line 1-2
 .
   [ Agustin Martin Domingo ]
   * Skip words containing illegal characters (whitespace). Thanks Jason
     Lee Quinn (Closes: #1028473).
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