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- To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
- Subject: lintian: false positive: .au spelling "targetted"
- From: Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>
- Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2013 15:17:23 +0200
- Message-id: <20131009131723.5204.46857.reportbug@umbar.angband.pl>
Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.19
Severity: normal
Lintian emits the following tag:
spelling-error-in-binary targetting targeting
spelling-error-in-binary targetted targeted
This promotes the US spelling. The UK has mostly switched to the US variant
as well, but -tt- remains the predominant version in AU.
There was a minor flamewar among Crawl's upstream, and we decided to
standardize on the spelling used by Linley Henzell, the game's original
developer. This goes in line with obeying .au rules everywhere in that
project.
Another case in point: Pabs wrote the following link in the Debian wiki:
[[FreedomBox/TargetedHardware|FreedomBox targetted hardware]]. Not
surprisingly, he comes from down under...
Looking at a few online dictionaries:
* US ones tend to allow only -t-
* UK ones tend to allow both (despite most webpages/etc using -t-)
* AU ones usually allow both, I remember at least one that requires -tt-
only
As lintian doesn't know which language flavour a package conforms to, it
must not discriminate against regional variants.
Disclaimer: I'm a dirty foreigner, so I'm not an oracle on correctness of
English spelling. I just don't want to be shouted at from two sides.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (150, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.11.3-x32 (SMP w/6 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.23.90.20130927-1
ii bzip2 1.0.6-5
ii diffstat 1.57-1
ii file 1:5.14-2
ii gettext 0.18.3.1-1
ii hardening-includes 2.4
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1
ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.29+b1
ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.30-7
ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.34-1
ii libclone-perl 0.35-1
ii libdpkg-perl 1.17.1
ii libemail-valid-perl 1.192-1
ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.03-1
ii libipc-run-perl 0.92-1
ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.33-1+b2
ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-1
ii libtext-levenshtein-perl 0.06~01-2
ii libtimedate-perl 1.2000-1
ii liburi-perl 1.60-1
ii man-db 2.6.5-2
ii patchutils 0.3.2-2
ii perl [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.18.1-4
ii t1utils 1.37-2
Versions of packages lintian recommends:
ii libautodie-perl 2.21-1
ii libperlio-gzip-perl 0.18-1+b3
ii perl-modules [libautodie-perl] 5.18.1-4
Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn binutils-multiarch <none>
ii dpkg-dev 1.17.1
ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.71-1+b1
pn libtext-template-perl <none>
ii xz-utils 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2
-- no debconf information
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