Re: Correct spelling/capitalisation of project names
* Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> [2008-01-12 09:11]:
> Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@debian.org> writes:
> > The name of the S-Lang library is sometimes wrongly spelled as "slang". It
> > would be good to have this fixed but if you add a rule slang -> S-Lang in
> > Lintian you will hit some false positives (like in packages ascii and
> > jargon) because "slang" is an English word.
>
> Yeah, unfortunately I don't think lintian will be able to catch that one.
Can't you add exceptions for some packages in the Lintian check? The only
packages in sid that use "slang" as an English word are ascii, jargon, and
jargon-text. Other packages that use "slang" or "SLang" mean actually the
"S-Lang" library.
--
Rafael
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