diff -u alpine-1.0+dfsg/debian/control alpine-1.0+dfsg/debian/control
--- alpine-1.0+dfsg/debian/control
+++ alpine-1.0+dfsg/debian/control
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 Priority: optional
 Maintainer: Ubuntu MOTU Developers <ubuntu-motu@lists.ubuntu.com>
 XSBC-Original-Maintainer: Asheesh Laroia <asheesh@asheesh.org>
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 5), libldap2-dev, libpam-dev, libncurses-dev, libssl-dev, autotools-dev, ca-certificates, automake1.9, autoconf, libtool, libkrb5-dev
+Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 5), libldap2-dev, libpam-dev, libncurses-dev, libssl-dev, autotools-dev, ca-certificates, automake1.9, autoconf, libtool, libkrb5-dev, aspell
 Standards-Version: 3.7.3
 XS-DM-Upload-Allowed: yes
 Homepage: http://www.washington.edu/alpine/
@@ -11,8 +11,8 @@
 
 Package: alpine
 Architecture: any
-Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
-Suggests: aspell, mail-transport-agent | exim4
+Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, aspell
+Suggests: mail-transport-agent | exim4
 Description: Text-based email client, friendly for novices but powerful
  Alpine is an upgrade of the well-known PINE email client.  Alpine is currently
  in alpha.  Its name derives from the use of the Apache License and its ties to
diff -u alpine-1.0+dfsg/debian/changelog alpine-1.0+dfsg/debian/changelog
--- alpine-1.0+dfsg/debian/changelog
+++ alpine-1.0+dfsg/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+alpine (1.0+dfsg-3ubuntu0.2) hardy-proposed; urgency=low
+
+  * Build-depend and depend on aspell so that it's detected at build time
+    and used. Reported by Geoffrey Thomas. (LP: #340993)
+
+ -- Evan Broder <broder@mit.edu>  Sat, 04 Apr 2009 18:47:09 -0400
+
 alpine (1.0+dfsg-3ubuntu0.1) hardy-proposed; urgency=low
 
   * Apply a patch to the autoconf script to actually build with GSSAPI