Bug#466617: lintian: Wrong spelling-error-in-copyright for publically
Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org> writes:
> Package: lintian
> Version: 1.23.45
> Severity: normal
>
> Lintian warns about a mis-spelling in one of my packages:
>
> W: libsvnqt4: spelling-error-in-copyright publically publicly
>
> Imho, both spellings are correct [1] and the check is wrong.
This sort of thing always bugs me; the only reason why dictionaries are
now listing publically as a valid spelling is because so many people
didn't spell it properly (probably reasoning by analogy about spelling
from words with different origins). Publicly has always been the correct
spelling. Publically is only showing up because it's so commonly
misspelled that Merriam-Webster basically gave up.
However, that does happen to languages, and it's probably not worth the
effort for me to be pointlessly pedantic about it. I'll take it back out
again. Life is too short to worry too much about it. :)
(You'll find, though, that spelling checkers like ispell will tell you
that publically is an incorrect spelling.)
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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