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



Harry Rickards <hrickards@l33tmyst.com> writes:
> Russ Allbery wrote:

>> 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.

> Okay. Shall I close the bug?

Yeah, if you're okay with that answer.

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



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