Bug#544866: Oddity: different data from upstream?

Reuben Thomas rrt at sc3d.org
Thu Sep 3 12:21:10 UTC 2009


Package: dict-wn
Version: 3.0-13
Severity: normal

I ran

$ dict -f wn set

and noticed a small typo under adj, sense 4:

 set down according to a plan:"a carefully laid

there's a missing space after "plan:".

So, I went to wordnetweb.princeton.edu to check the upstream source,
but this definition doesn't appear there, although both the package
and the web site claim to be using WordNet v3.0.

So, I ran the same query on another machine that was using dict.org,
which itself offers WordNet 2.0, and got the same definitions as from
the 3.0-13 dict-wn package.

Hence, I'm not exactly what the bug is here: possibly a missing space,
or possibly an inconsistency with the upstream data.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.2
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages dict-wn depends on:
pn  dictd | dict-server           <none>     (no description available)

dict-wn recommends no packages.

Versions of packages dict-wn suggests:
pn  dict-gcide                    <none>     (no description available)





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