Bug#424746: lintian: please detect duplicate words in the description
Raphael Geissert <atomo64@gmail.com> writes:
> I believe there are more chances of false positives on other checks
> other than this one because of English spelling :)
Okay, we can try it.
> cat <<FOO
> the the Kiten Japanese reference and study aid. Portions of this library,
> FOO
>
> Around line 83 lintian chomps $_, so if \s is used it would never match the
> above quoted line (which belongs to the libkiten4 package).
Which is why you wrote (^|\W) in your original regex, right? I don't see
how changing that to (^|\s) would change that.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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