Bug#456515: lintian: Undesirable spelling warning on changelog entries describing spelling fixes
Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.41
Severity: normal
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Describing the problem by an example:
lintian's spelling check has found a spelling error in dblatex's copyright file:
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W: dblatex: spelling-error-in-copyright publically publicly
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Okay, thanks for the hint, fixing the spelling and logging it in changelog:
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* debian/copyright:
+ Fix spelling: publically -> publicly
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But now lintian warns about my changelog entry:
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W: dblatex: spelling-error-in-changelog publically publicly
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... At this point I get the spontaneous feeling that lintian doesn't help me
any longer, but starts to patronize me: I like the changelog entry as it is:
describing precisely my actions.
One could think either about a pattern that disables spell checking for the
current changelog line, or about skipping the spelling checks on changelog at
all (which seems to be one opinion expressed in BTS thread #36017).
- -- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-k7 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.18.1~cvs20071027-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii diffstat 1.45-2 produces graph of changes introduc
ii dpkg-dev 1.14.12 package building tools for Debian
ii file 4.21-3 Determines file type using "magic"
ii gettext 0.16.1-2 GNU Internationalization utilities
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii libparse-debianchan 1.1.1-1 parse Debian changelogs and output
ii liburi-perl 1.35.dfsg.1-1 Manipulates and accesses URI strin
ii man-db 2.5.0-4 on-line manual pager
ii perl [libdigest-md5 5.8.8-12 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
lintian recommends no packages.
- -- no debconf information
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