Why aren't aspell-XX packages noarch?

Matthias Saou thias at spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.egg.and.spam.freshrpms.net
Wed Sep 1 14:52:56 UTC 2004


Adrian Havill wrote :

> Matthias Saou wrote:
> 
> >I was wondering why the numerous aspell-XX packages were built for each
> >arch instead of being noarch.
> 
> They're not noarch (despite the packaging of some other distros)-- we 
> found this out the hard way when they were briefly noarch for a period 
> of time until we noticed the dictionaries failing on big endian and/or 
> 64bit platforms (forget which) like the ppc. If this has changed with 
> very recent versions of the 0.50 series, it will require retesting.

Thanks for the answer. Maybe the problems are indeed solved, especially
since lots of issues have gone away when the {a,i,p}spell confusion got
sorted out.

Matthias

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