[Bug 340993] [NEW] alpine's ./configure wants Build-Depends and Depends: aspell

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Binary package hint: alpine

alpine's debian/rules configures it it
  --with-spellcheck-program=aspell
which according to the changelog has been in Debian since 0.82+dfsg-4.

However, if you build it without aspell installed on your local system, ./configure reports:
  checking for aspell... no
  checking for ispell... no
  checking for spell... no
  checking for aspell... no
  checking for ispell... no
and then builds the resulting binary without spell-checking support. You can confirm this by installing alpine, starting the composer with "alpine foo at example.com", scrolling to the message body, and pressing Ctrl-T.

If you install aspell on the build system before configuring, the build
process successfully finds aspell, and Ctrl-T works in the resulting
binary. I've only tested this on a build server in an Intrepid chroot,
building in a clean environment and then after manually installing
aspell, but I believe the same packaging bug applies to Hardy as well.

So, alpine's package needs to Build-Depend on aspell, so it's present
for ./configure, and to Depend on (or at least Recommend) aspell, so
it's available for use on the target system.

** Affects: alpine (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
     Assignee: Asheesh Laroia (paulproteus)
         Status: Confirmed

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alpine's ./configure wants Build-Depends and Depends: aspell
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/340993
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