Please backport dictionaries-common 1.5.15 to Maverick

Bug #666204 reported by era
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Bug Description

Getting a fix for bug #619015 into maverick-backports would be valuable for Emacs users who use flyspell.

Rationale:
 * The flyspell error is hard to diagnose and debug; many users who enable flyspell in their .emacs will have no way to fix this on their own, and might have trouble starting up Emacs on text files (sic!)
 * This is a regression introduced by version skew between emacs and dictionaries-common; they should have been kept in sync, especially for an LTS release

A version for Natty which includes the fix (upstream 1.5.15) was merged in bug #660357.

Alternatively, you could merge upstream 1.5.12, which contains only the fix for bug #619015, relative to the version currently in Maverick (1.5.1).

Thanks for considering this!

era (era)
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era (era) wrote :

Upon closer reading of -backports instructions, I am unsure whether this is eligible for a backport. Hence I am also attempting to get an SRU for Maverick, in bug #619015. Apologies if this is wasteful.

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Evan Broder (broder) wrote :

As a rule, we prefer to use backports for new features, not to fix bugs. The SRU process allows us to apply fixes to stable releases which are then available to all users (unlike backports, which is not enabled by default).

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era (era) wrote :

As an SRU seems like the way to go, I'm closing this as Invalid. Thanks for your patience with me ...

Changed in maverick-backports:
status: New → Invalid
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