diff --git a/website/BUGS.html b/website/BUGS.html
index 91448903..c63f3728 100644
--- a/website/BUGS.html
+++ b/website/BUGS.html
@@ -40,6 +40,23 @@ versions.</i></p>
     --page-index option to --page-label for the evince command line
     used for PDF.</li>
 
+  <li id="aspelljessie">
+    The aspell command used to generate the orthographic correction
+    dictionary is broken on Debian Jessie, because of an aspell
+    packaging mistake which will not be fixed for the release. Try the
+    following command, replacing 'en' by your language code:
+    <pre><tt>
+        /usr/bin/aspell --lang=en --encoding=utf-8 create master /tmp/dict.rws
+    </tt></pre>
+    If it complains about a missing <tt>/usr/share/aspell/en.dat</tt>,
+    the workaround is to link the <tt>.dat</tt> files from
+    <tt>/usr/lib/aspell</tt> to <tt>/usr/share/aspell</tt>:
+    <pre><tt>
+        cd /usr/share/aspell
+        sudo ln -s /usr/lib/aspell/*.dat .
+    </tt></pre>
+  </li>
+
   <li>It will sometimes happen that the result list paragraph format stored in
     the Qt preferences file will get garbled, causing result lists with no
     displayed paragraphs (the counts and pages are ok, the results can be seen
diff --git a/website/index.html.en b/website/index.html.en
index 6765e1cf..94c73588 100644
--- a/website/index.html.en
+++ b/website/index.html.en
@@ -93,8 +93,15 @@
 
       <h2>News</h2>
       <div class="news">
+
       
       <dl>
+        <dt>2014-12-10</dt> <dd>The aspell command used for
+          orthographic suggestions is broken on Debian Jessie (because
+          of an aspell packaging issue), and this will not be fixed
+          for the Debian release. See the <a href="BUGS.html#aspelljessie">
+            simple workaround here</a>.</dd>
+
         <dt>2014-11-09</dt> <dd>If you are still running anything
           older than 1.19.14p2, <span class="important">YOU SHOULD
           UPGRADE</span>. In