It looks like the upstream distribution is in the process of deprecating
aspell and claims is is only provided as a build requirement for a few
packages. This doesn't seem to be correct, at least as far as
php-pspell requires aspell but since all of the dictionaries have been
removed it appears to be rendered useless as it doesn't appear to use
hunspell at all.
Any suggestions?
The bug where I suspect this is being discussed, at least in part, has
been locked out.