aspell-dict-* packages lack .cmap and .cset files

I have installed the latest versions of aspell & aspell-dict-en via guix on a foreign distro:

aspell                0.60.8               out    /gnu/store/xyz0ljdw4m25k8vhnl8261ywq7dvmr49-aspell-0.60.8

aspell-dict-en    2020.12.07-0    out    /gnu/store/v90ifhzvln0p61i6xpadjj6qvjqvr4sb-aspell-dict-en-2020.12.07-0 

However, when recollindex tries to run this aspell command it emits an error:

Error: The language "en" is not known. This is probably because: the file "/gnu/store/xyz0ljdw4m25k8vhnl8261ywq7dvmr49-aspell-0.60.8/lib/aspell-0.60/en.dat" can not be opened for reading.

If I add a --data-dir option to point to the aspell-dict-en dir which contains en.dat I get a different error:

Error: The file "~/.guix-profile/lib/aspell/iso-8859-1.cset" can not be opened for reading. 

The aspell installation contains cset & cmap files in its lib/aspell-0.60/ subdir, but no dat files, whereas the aspell-dict-en contains dat files but not cset or cmap files. However, aspell expects them to be in the same directory, as they are in the debian aspell package (in /usr/lib/aspell).

Joe 

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Hello,

vapnik spaknik <vapniks@yahoo.com> skribis:

I replied before seeing this bug report at

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2022-03/msg00045.html,

and asked the following questions:

and:

Thanks in advance for your help,

Ludo’.

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Hi,

here on the same track, trying to use recoll on guix foreign distro:

1) recoll log.txt

[...]

:2:index/indexer.cpp:405::ConfIndexer::createAspellDict: aspell

buildDict failed: aspell dictionary creation command failed:

/gnu/store/mgcicm6phq4971195znrrv804r89sb0b-aspell-0.60.8/bin/aspell

--lang=en --encoding=utf-8 create master /home/ci/.recoll/aspdict.en.rws

One possible reason might be missing language data files for lang = en.

Maybe try to execute the command by hand for a better diag.

[...]

2) ~$ guix package --list-installed=aspell\*

aspell-dict-es 1.11-2 out

/gnu/store/0jzq0qb1ljq973h403japslq5kvsr13g-aspell-dict-es-1.11-2

aspell 0.60.8 out

/gnu/store/mgcicm6phq4971195znrrv804r89sb0b-aspell-0.60.8

aspell-dict-uk 1.4.0-0 out

/gnu/store/7b4925ih5xgfkscd5zd0bp57ms62d6j6-aspell-dict-uk-1.4.0-0

aspell-dict-de 20161207-7-0 out

/gnu/store/r4gmz8ff5z26kswk435rg47pl9kpx59x-aspell-dict-de-20161207-7-0

aspell-dict-en 2020.12.07-0 out

/gnu/store/bssgajl900xbki758ainw9kimza9jxmi-aspell-dict-en-2020.12.07-0

aspell-dict-ca 2.5.0 out

/gnu/store/ln7c0ibs6li92r12yraqcwwn3l29psa6-aspell-dict-ca-2.5.0

Trying to run the aspell, as the recoll log.txt:

3) ~$ aspell --lang=en --encoding=utf-8 create master

$HOME/.recoll/aspict.en.rws

Error: The language "en" is not known. This is probably because: the

file

"/gnu/store/mgcicm6phq4971195znrrv804r89sb0b-aspell-0.60.8/lib/aspell-0.60/en.dat"

can not be opened for reading.

Find does not seem to find anything:

4) ~$ find $(guix build aspell-dict-en) -name \*cset

5) ~$ find $(guix build aspell-dict-en) -name \*cmap

as vapnik spaknik stated, there seems to be no "file

"/gnu/store/mgcicm6phq4971195znrrv804r89sb0b-aspell-0.60.8/lib/aspell-0.60/en.dat"

but those are on the language package itself:

6) ~$ find $(guix build aspell-dict-en) -name \*.dat

/gnu/store/bssgajl900xbki758ainw9kimza9jxmi-aspell-dict-en-2020.12.07-0/lib/aspell/en_phonet.dat

/gnu/store/bssgajl900xbki758ainw9kimza9jxmi-aspell-dict-en-2020.12.07-0/lib/aspell/en_affix.dat

/gnu/store/bssgajl900xbki758ainw9kimza9jxmi-aspell-dict-en-2020.12.07-0/lib/aspell/en.dat

(that last is not

"/gnu/store/mgcicm6phq4971195znrrv804r89sb0b-aspell-0.60.8/lib/aspell-0.60/en.dat"

(see 3)

I hope it helps!

francisMB