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Bug#822504: lintian: false positive spelling-error-in-copyright (duplicate word) involving names and field labels



Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.44
Severity: normal

Hi,

this paragraph from debian/copyright triggers a few false positives:

==========
Files: debian/source/lintian-overrides
Copyright: © 2014 Pedro Pérez Pérez
           © 2015 Wang Wang and Funi
           © 2016 F. Ree License
License: GPL-2.0+
==========

spelling-error-in-copyright Wang Wang (duplicate word) Wang
spelling-error-in-copyright License License (duplicate word) License

The copyright field contains names. Names shouldn't be subject to
spellchecking.
And I happen to know a guy from Spain with a similar "duplicate" family name.

Field labels shouldn't be checked either, nor should different fields
be concatenated (with their labels inbetween).

(I initially triggered this with 
    Copyright: no copyright notice, see License
    License: public-domain
     ...
)


Andreas


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