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Updated package description in accordance with instructions at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates

I'm unsure whether this should be an SRU or a backport; this kind of
seems to fall between the cracks.  I'm trying both approaches now;
apologies if I am wasting too much of everybody's time this way.

** Description changed:

  Binary package hint: dictionaries-common
+ 
+ Emacs users who want to use flyspell (wavy underlines under misspelled
+ words as you type) cannot on Maverick.  The root cause was a change in
+ the Emacs Lisp syntax which breaks older versions of dictionaries-
+ common.
+ 
+ TEST CASE: start Emacs, type Esc x flyspell-mode <ret> or equivalently
+ enable Flyspell from Customize or the menu.
+ 
+ Failure scenario: an error message "Enabling flyspell-mode gave an
+ error." (sic)
+ 
+ Success scenario: "Starting new ispell process ..."
+ 
+ A minimal patch is attached to this bug.  Upgrading dictionaries-common
+ to upstream 1.5.12 should be equivalent.  Natty now ships 1.5.15 (bug
+ #660367).  Maverick has 1.5.11.
+ 
+ The fix in 1.5.12 should be compatible with older Emacs versions;
+ emacs22 (and to a limited extent xemacs21) should continue to work,
+ while this fixes flyspell for emacs23 and emacs-snapshot users.
+ 
+ --- Previous version of Bug Description: ---
  
  Please remove the following files from dictionaries-common:
  
  /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/dictionaries-common/debian-ispell.el
  /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/dictionaries-common/flyspell.el
  /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/dictionaries-common/ispell.el
  
  They are already provided with the emacs packages (emacs23-common and emacs-snapshot-common) and the versions provided with dictionaries-common are currently incompatible with the ones that are included in the emacs23-package:
  When these files are installed any attempt to enable on-the-fly spell checking e.G. by M-x flyspell-mode will result in a generic error message:
  
  Enabling flyspell-mode gave an error.
  
  No debug info. And even if debug-on-error is set the error message is
  generated without setting any trigger for the debugger. Took me 2 hours
  to track this error down.
  
  WORKAROUND: to fix this in a live system, remove the byte-compiled .elc
  files for your emacs flavor, too.  For example, if you use emacs23;
  
  cd /usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp/dictionaries-common
  sudo rm *.el *.elc
  
  After removing the files spell checking while typing in emacs works fine
  again.
  
  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
  Package: dictionaries-common 1.5.11ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-15.21-generic 2.6.35.1
  Uname: Linux 2.6.35-15-generic i686
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Tue Aug 17 03:51:38 2010
  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=en_GB.utf8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: dictionaries-common

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dictionaries-common versions of ispell.el and flyspell.el break recent emacsen
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/619015
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