Paul Howarth wrote:
> Owner: pghmcfc
> gtkwave
Current versions of gtkwave that I'd like to build in EL-6 use the Judy
array library, which is not yet in EPEL. I wrote to the maintainer some
time ago about this but haven't seen a response. The version of the
library in Fedora isn't recent either, so perhaps the maintainer is
AWOL. Haven't had time to investigate that yet.
Current EPEL branching policy seems to be put in a request for the
branch against the Fedora package, if there's no response within a week
or so then make the CVS Change Request and reference the ticket.
> perl-Text-SpellChecker
This is built on Text::Aspell, which in turn is built on aspell. Whilst
aspell is included in EL-6, it's only there for the purposes of building
the hunspell dictionaries and there are no aspell dictionaries available
(#590700). I think the way forward here is to bring aspell-en (at least)
into EPEL-6. I don't know if the aspell-en maintainer is willing to do
that themselves yet.
The question of packages like this has come up, the optional repos seem
a little haphazard if you don't realise that much of what's in there is
to support BuildRequires for packages in RHEL-6, this includes at least
1 noarch package which is a build dep for some of the x86_64
virtualisation tools. But as a build dep only for x86_64 it's only in
the x86_64 repos.
I did look at the Text::Hunspell module as an
alternative approach but it's broken (CPAN RT#39824) and seems to be
dead upstream (upstream doesn't know how to fix it anyway), which is a
shame given that it's the official perl binding of hunspell.
Probably the fun game of a full rewrite required, ergh!
Mark