[Pkg-geany-team] Bug#646555: geany-plugin-spellcheck: Spellcheck missing dependency

[Alex Opie]

Package: geany-plugin-spellcheck
Version: 0.20-3
Severity: important


After installing geany-plugin-spellcheck, I was unable to use the feature because I didn't have any aspell libraries installed.  Installing aspell-en fixed the problem.
The issue here is that the package ought to at least have some aspell packages listed as suggests or recommends so that users can figure out which dictionary library package is required.  Having a dependency would be nicer, but I understand that would be troublesome since the package shouldn't predetermine which language the user should have.

My first action when the spellchecker didn't load (it raised an error dialog) was to check the package for recommends/suggests to see which dictionary package it wanted.  Since nothing is listed there I had to look up other bug reports on the web to figure it out.
Incidentally, libenchant was no better with its dependencies.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers oldstable
  APT policy: (500, 'oldstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.39-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_NZ.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_NZ.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages geany-plugin-spellcheck depends on:
ii  geany-plugins-common          0.20-3     set of plugins for Geany (translat
ii  libc6                         2.13-2     Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libenchant1c2a                1.6.0-1    a wrapper library for various spel
ii  libglib2.0-0                  2.28.4-1   The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0                   2.24.4-3   The GTK+ graphical user interface 

geany-plugin-spellcheck recommends no packages.

geany-plugin-spellcheck suggests no packages.

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