diff --git a/ispell/ispell.spec b/ispell/ispell.spec
index c90e9df841..84077c43da 100644
--- a/ispell/ispell.spec
+++ b/ispell/ispell.spec
@@ -23,6 +23,10 @@
 ##  SUCH DAMAGE.
 ##
 
+#   package versions
+%define       V_ispell    3.2.06
+%define       V_igerman98 20030222
+
 #   package information
 Name:         ispell
 Summary:      Interactive Spell Checker
@@ -32,21 +36,21 @@ Packager:     The OpenPKG Project
 Distribution: OpenPKG [BASE]
 Group:        Text
 License:      BSD
-Version:      3.2.06
-Release:      20030305
+Version:      %{V_ispell}
+Release:      20030716
 
 #   list of sources
-Source0:      http://fmg-www.cs.ucla.edu/geoff/tars/ispell-%{version}.tar.gz
+Source0:      http://fmg-www.cs.ucla.edu/geoff/tars/ispell-%{V_ispell}.tar.gz
 Source1:      ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-kiel.de/pub/kiel/dicts/hk-deutsch.tar.gz
-Source2:      http://lisa.goe.net/~bjacke/igerman98/dict/igerman98-20030222.tar.bz2
+Source2:      http://lisa.goe.net/~bjacke/igerman98/dict/igerman98-%{V_igerman98}.tar.bz2
 Source3:      ftp://ftp.openpkg.org/DST/ispell/words.gz
 Patch0:       ispell.patch
 
 #   build information
 Prefix:       %{l_prefix}
 BuildRoot:    %{l_buildroot}
-BuildPreReq:  OpenPKG, openpkg >= 20020206, make, bison
-PreReq:       OpenPKG, openpkg >= 20020206
+BuildPreReq:  OpenPKG, openpkg >= 20020206, ncurses, make, bison
+PreReq:       OpenPKG, openpkg >= 20020206, ncurses
 AutoReq:      no
 AutoReqProv:  no
 
@@ -63,7 +67,7 @@ AutoReqProv:  no
     %{l_gzip} -d -c %{SOURCE words.gz} >$RPM_BUILD_DIR/words
     mkdir hk-deutsch
     (cd hk-deutsch; %{l_gzip} -d -c %{SOURCE hk-deutsch.tar.gz} | %{l_tar} xf -)
-    %{l_bzip2} -d -c %{SOURCE igerman98-20001109.tar.bz2} | %{l_tar} xf -
+    %{l_bzip2} -d -c %{SOURCE igerman98-%{V_igerman98}.tar.bz2} | %{l_tar} xf -
 
 %build
     ( echo "#define MINIMENU"
@@ -77,6 +81,7 @@ AutoReqProv:  no
       echo "#define MAN4DIR    \"%{l_prefix}/man/man4\""
       echo "#define WORDS      \"$RPM_BUILD_DIR/words\""
       echo "#define YACC       \"%{l_prefix}/bin/bison -y\""
+      echo "#define TERMLIB    \"%{l_ldflags} -lncurses\""
       case "%{l_target}" in
           *-linux* | *-solaris* ) echo "#define USG" ;;
       esac
@@ -92,7 +97,8 @@ AutoReqProv:  no
           sort -u >all.words
       ../buildhash all.words deutsch.aff deutsch.hash
     )
-    ( cd igerman98-20001109
+    ( cd igerman98-%{V_igerman98}
+      %{l_shtool} subst -e 's;munchlist;../munchlist;g' Makefile
       %{l_make} %{l_mflags} \
           UNSQ=cat BUILDHASH=`pwd`/../buildhash \
           german.hash 2>/dev/null
@@ -124,7 +130,7 @@ AutoReqProv:  no
       %{l_shtool} install -c -m 644 \
           deutsch.hash $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{l_prefix}/share/ispell/deutsch-old.hash
     )
-    ( cd igerman98-20001109
+    ( cd igerman98-%{V_igerman98}
       %{l_shtool} install -c -m 644 \
           german.aff $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{l_prefix}/share/ispell/deutsch.aff
       %{l_shtool} install -c -m 644 \