Bug#526435: lintian: [checks/binaries.desc] Please add to the description that the case of the string can be different
On Fri, 2009-05-01 at 13:32 -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote:
> 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:
Applied, thanks (with only one small tweak, to s/lintian/Lintian/ :-)
> 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>
Shouldn't that be grep -ir?
Regards,
Adam
Reply to: