Bug#534234: lintian: spelling-error-in-binary false positive on 'res.size'
Package: lintian
Version: 2.2.12
Severity: minor
The binary /usr/bin/mtn (provided by the "monotone" package) contains
a bunch of instances of the string "res.size", e.g.
res.size() == static_cast<size_type>(w)
database.cc:2122: I(res.size() <= 1)
database.cc:3789: I(res.size() == 1)
(These are debugging messages which appear in a logfile when assertions
fail.) The spelling check appears to strip punctuation, so "res.size"
becomes "ressize" and spelling-error-in-binary fires.
May I suggest that this check might be more reliable if applied to
message catalogs instead of (or in addition to) binaries? 'msgunfmt'
will convert a .mo file back to the textual .po format; unfortunately
there is no way to tell it to print only the (assumed English) msgids
and not the translations.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.19.1-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii diffstat 1.47-1 produces graph of changes introduc
ii dpkg-dev 1.15.2 Debian package development tools
ii file 5.03-1 Determines file type using "magic"
ii gettext 0.17-6 GNU Internationalization utilities
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.23 Perl interface to libapt-pkg
ii libipc-run-perl 0.82-1 Perl module for running processes
ii libparse-debianchangel 1.1.1-2 parse Debian changelogs and output
ii libtimedate-perl 1.1600-9 Time and date functions for Perl
ii liburi-perl 1.37+dfsg-1 Manipulates and accesses URI strin
ii man-db 2.5.5-2 on-line manual pager
ii perl [libdigest-sha-pe 5.10.0-23 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
lintian recommends no packages.
Versions of packages lintian suggests:
ii binutils-multiarch 2.19.1-1 Binary utilities that support mult
pn libtext-template-perl <none> (no description available)
ii man-db 2.5.5-2 on-line manual pager
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