❦ 26 décembre 2017 10:03 -0800, Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> :
>> As an example, the spelling errors are useful for debian/ directory (as
>> informational), but totally useless for upstream stuff. For me, they are
>> not worth telling upstream, they are not worth adding to an override
>> (which could become outdated and give you another lintian warning).
>
> 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.
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