Bug#542831: lintian: Convertor is reported as a spelling mistake with -E

[Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>]

Harry Rickards <hrickards@l33tmyst.com> writes:

> When using -E on a package with convertor in it's binary, lintian reports the
> following:
> X: lives: spelling-error-in-binary ./usr/lib/lives/lives-exe convertor
> converter

> However convertor is a valid english word. See
> http://www.dict.org/bin/Dict?Form=Dict2&Database=*&Query=convertor.

I'm afraid those dictionaries are wrong, at least as dictionaries are
normally judged.  The word is converter per both Merriam-Webster and the
Oxford English Dictionary.  The OED specifically lists convertor as an
erroneous spelling.

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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>