Bug#711207: spelling-error-in-binary is overly eager: teH/the

[Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>]

Ryan Kavanagh <rak@debian.org> writes:

> Lintian is overly eager with spelling-error-in-binary. In one one
> package, the string
>   I9\$ teH
> would randomly appear in the output of "strings /path/to/binary" (which
> to my understanding is used by lintian to test for spelling errors)
> depending on how the planets were aligned at build time; and lintian
> would report it as a mispelling of "the".

I wonder if we should require the "word" be a minimum length to trigger
that tag.  Maybe four or five characters?

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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>