tag 526435 patch thanks Hi Paul, Paul Gevers wrote: > > I spend quite some time yesterday of finding a sting which was in all > CAPS. Please add some comment to the description that the string > reported might be found in any variant of capitization. Maybe also a add > comment on how to find the string yourself, i.e. use > "strings <binary> | grep -i <string>". > Good idea, thanks. The new description proposed in the attached patch follows: N: spelling-error-in-binary N: N: Lintian found a spelling error in the given binary. Lintian has a list N: of common misspellings that it looks for. It does not have a N: dictionary like a spelling checker does. For lintian's convenience all N: words are normalised to lower case. N: N: If the string containing the spelling error is translated with the N: help of gettext or a similar tool, please fix the error in the N: translations as well as the English text to avoid making the N: translations fuzzy. With gettext, for example, this means you should N: also fix the spelling mistake in the corresponding msgids in the *.po N: files. N: N: To find the original word you can run: N: N: strings <binary> | grep -i <word> N: N: You can often find the word in the source code by running: N: N: grep -r '\b<original-word>\b' <source-tree> Cheers, -- Raphael Geissert - Debian Maintainer www.debian.org - get.debian.net
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