Chris, the problem with the symlinks is that they point to non-existent files.
Duncan, what does 'dpkg -S /usr/share/myspell/dicts/en*US* give on your system, and what does 'dpkg -l hunspell-en-us' give? Both the hunspell-en-us and myspell-en-us packages in intrepid appear to correctly include the dictionary files.
Chris, the problem with the symlinks is that they point to non-existent files.
Duncan, what does 'dpkg -S /usr/share/ myspell/ dicts/en* US* give on your system, and what does 'dpkg -l hunspell-en-us' give? Both the hunspell-en-us and myspell-en-us packages in intrepid appear to correctly include the dictionary files.