Deprecated dictionary for russian language used in this package

[Alexander Frolushkin]

Most distributions ships myspell-ru packages with current dictionaries from http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Dictionaries#Russian_.28Russia.29
Russian ye (Russia) and Russian yo (Russia).
Used (deprecated) dictionary contains worse words set. For example, for mistyped (like "ршается" - without one second letter) russian word "решается" this dic suggests "ершаться" and "решатся". Dicts Russian ye (Russia) and Russian yo (Russia) do it correct.
Maybe Ubuntu will at last make another optional package with this dictionaries, or replace current dictionary with upper ones, which is better?

[Alexander Frolushkin (hokum)]

real package with this dictionary

[Martin-Éric Racine (q-funk)]

I'm not entirely opposed to switching the source we use for this dictionary, but then I'd appreciate a wider response and a consensus before we do. Another condition to switching to that dictionary source is that tools must exist to create ispell dictionaries (we already have tools for aspell) out of the same package.

At any rate, we're too late to do this for Hardy. However, let's see what we can do for the next release. :)

[Alexander Frolushkin (hokum)]

As far as I realize this situation, we do have 'normal' aspell and ispell dictionaries, and 'bad' myspell dictionary, which is used by OpenOffice.org and some other software.
I don't know, why myspell in Ubuntu uses this 'bad' dictionary and not 'normal' dictionary like other distro (for example, Mandriva 2008.1) do.
Will try to explore situation with russian dictionaries in myspell.

[Alexander Frolushkin (hokum)]

Situation with russian dic in Debian even worse. All other popular distributions have worthy spell checking inside.
Suse has its own, sun/novell dictionaries. Seems like most of distro come to ispell or aspell dicts in OpenOffice.org, and does not use myspell for spell checking in mainstream any more.

[Martin-Éric Racine (q-funk)]

The situation in Debian is not worse. It's the exact same package as for Ubuntu.

[Alexander Frolushkin (hokum)]

Well, in 4.0r3 OpenOffice.org when spell checking some usual mistypings it gives worse results. Maybe it happens because older version in it.
Anyway, Ubuntu bundled OOO may be replaced by local build - and usually russian-speaking users prefer Infra resource deb builds contains mentioned dicts, despite that packages brooks some meta packages in Ubuntu.
It is not generally bug, as I see it now, but rather the feature request for OOO - to move from myspell to ispell by default.

[Martin-Éric Racine (q-funk)]

OOo will not regress to an older, outdated spell checker system. In fact, it already evolved past MySpell and nowadays uses HunSpell.

[Martin-Éric Racine (q-funk)]

Looking at the above files you suggested that we switch to, I notice that they haven't been upgraded in almost 4 years. Meanwhile, the sources we currently use regularly see new releases. Given this, I'm not so convinced whether switching would be such a good idea.

[Alexander Frolushkin (hokum)]

Ok, I am sorry to trouble you.
Just can't realize, how it can be - why Ubuntu and Debian uses wrong russian dictionaries... :(