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Re: Why do we list individual copyright holders?



On Tue, 2017-12-26 at 19:27 +0100, Vincent Bernat wrote:
>  ❦ 26 décembre 2017 10:03 -0800, Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> :
> This is the sort of thing that makes me feel like you have your
> > Lintian
> > settings turned up too high for the amount of nit-picking that you
> > want.
> > The spelling tags that apply to upstream files are
> > spelling-error-in-manpage and spelling-error-in-binary, which are
> > informational only.  These are intentionally not shown by default
> > to avoid
> > warning fatigue.  The assumption is that someone who turns them on
> > is
> > seeking out a pickier set of warnings.
> 
> They are at the same level as spelling-error-in-readme-debian,
> spelling-error-in-copyright, spelling-error-in-changelog and others.

Nope. There are currently 10 spelling-error-in-* tags, of which all but
three are warnings - the exceptions, all information level tags, are
the two that Russ mentioned, and spelling-error-in-copyright, which
again is more likely to be an upstream issue.

Regards,

Adam


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