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Re: ITO: several packages available for adoption



On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 12:37:47PM -0600, Colin Watson wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 12:01:13PM -0500, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> > On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > > They will probably also want to fix the lintian errors while they're at it;
> > > most of them are trivial and could be corrected in the first upload:
> > > 
> > > http://lintian.debian.org/reports/mCraig_Sanders.html
> > 
> > What would be really cool would be for Lintian to check the required text
> > for spelling errors according to the Debian template. While this one time
> > sweep has been very helpful, things change with time and errors creep in.
> > Having a standard way to deal with this without having to remember to
> > break out the spell checker would be a very nice enhancement to Lintian.
> 
> There actually is a spelling check already in Lintian, but I can well
> imagine that its dictionary could do with being enhanced or replaced
> with a call to ispell.

What these checks do, as far as I know, is check for common misspellings of
words which are very unlikely to be correct.

Unfortunately, an automated call to ispell is unlikely to be accurate enough
even for lintian warnings, until we have a specialized dictionary for it.

http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2001/debian-devel-200110/msg00164.html

http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2001/debian-devel-200112/msg01512.html

-- 
 - mdz



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