Comment 22 for bug 261596

Duncan,

And as a comparison:

ccheney@laptop-c2d:~$ dpkg -S /usr/share/myspell/dicts/en*US*
hunspell-en-us: /usr/share/myspell/dicts/en_US.aff
hunspell-en-us: /usr/share/myspell/dicts/en-US.aff
hunspell-en-us: /usr/share/myspell/dicts/en_US.dic
hunspell-en-us: /usr/share/myspell/dicts/en-US.dic
ccheney@laptop-c2d:~$ dpkg -l hunspell-en-us
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii hunspell-en-us 20070829-2ubun English_american dictionary for hunspell
ccheney@laptop-c2d:~$

Which is why I thought this must be something wrong with your install, or maybe something wrong with dpkg? In any case the files are actually there in the debs it just isn't there on your system.