Your message dated Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:20:58 -0600 with message-id <4aea6994.c401be0a.2872.ffff8e82@mx.google.com> and subject line Re: Bug#553274: lintian: bogus spelling-error-in-binary has caused the Debian Bug report #553274, regarding lintian: bogus spelling-error-in-binary to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith. (NB: If you are a system administrator and have no idea what this message is talking about, this may indicate a serious mail system misconfiguration somewhere. Please contact owner@bugs.debian.org immediately.) -- 553274: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=553274 Debian Bug Tracking System Contact owner@bugs.debian.org with problems
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- To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
- Subject: lintian: bogus spelling-error-in-binary
- From: Jakub Wilk <ubanus@users.sf.net>
- Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:00:14 +0100
- Message-id: <[🔎] 20091029210014.GA5211@jwilk.net>
Package: lintian Version: 2.2.17 Severity: minorlintian says that there is a spelling error in a binary, but the allegedly misspelled string is neither found in the sources nor in the binary itself:$ wget -q http://ftp.pl.debian.org/debian/pool/main/libv/libvigraimpex/libvigraimpex2ldbl_1.6.0+dfsg-1_i386.deb $ lintian --display-info --display-experimental *.deb | head -n1 X: libvigraimpex2ldbl: spelling-error-in-binary ./usr/lib/libvigraimpex.so.2.0.160 unkown unknown $ dpkg-deb -x *.deb . && grep -c unkown ./usr/lib/libvigraimpex.so.2.0.160 0 -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (900, 'unstable'), (500, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.20-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii diffstat 1.47-1 produces graph of changes introduc ii dpkg-dev 1.15.4.1 Debian package development tools ii file 5.03-2 Determines file type using "magic" ii gettext 0.17-8 GNU Internationalization utilities ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.24 Perl interface to libapt-pkg ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.34-1 Perl module that automatically gen ii libipc-run-perl 0.84-1 Perl module for running processes ii libparse-debianchangel 1.1.1-2 parse Debian changelogs and output ii libtimedate-perl 1.1900-1 Time and date functions for Perl ii liburi-perl 1.37+dfsg-1 Manipulates and accesses URI strin ii man-db 2.5.6-3 on-line manual pagerii perl [libdigest-sha-pe 5.10.1-5 Larry Wall's Practical Extractionlintian recommends no packages. Versions of packages lintian suggests: pn binutils-multiarch <none> (no description available) ii libtext-template-perl 1.45-1 Text::Template perl module ii man-db 2.5.6-3 on-line manual pager -- debconf-show failed -- Jakub Wilk
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- To: 553274-done@bugs.debian.org
- Subject: Re: Bug#553274: lintian: bogus spelling-error-in-binary
- From: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
- Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:20:58 -0600
- Message-id: <4aea6994.c401be0a.2872.ffff8e82@mx.google.com>
- References: <20091029210014.GA5211__9697.77898067168$1256855966$gmane$org@jwilk.net>
Hi, Jakub Wilk wrote: > > lintian says that there is a spelling error in a binary, but the > allegedly misspelled string is neither found in the sources nor in the > binary itself: > > $ wget -q > http://ftp.pl.debian.org/debian/pool/main/libv/libvigraimpex/libvigraimpex2ldbl_1.6.0+dfsg-1_i386.deb > > $ lintian --display-info --display-experimental *.deb | head -n1 > X: libvigraimpex2ldbl: spelling-error-in-binary > ./usr/lib/libvigraimpex.so.2.0.160 unkown unknown > > $ dpkg-deb -x *.deb . && grep -c unkown ./usr/lib/libvigraimpex.so.2.0.160 > 0 > The typo is there: $ strings usr/lib/libvigraimpex.so.2.0.160 | grep -i unkown Unkown resolution unit $ lintian-info -t spelling-error-in-binary N: spelling-error-in-binary [...] N: dictionary like a spelling checker does. For Lintian's convenience all N: *words are normalised to _lower case_.* [...] N: To find the original word you can run: N: N: *strings <binary> | grep _-i_ <word>* Closing it as there's nothing wrong with lintian and the right method to find the original word is already documented. Cheers, -- Raphael Geissert - Debian Developer www.debian.org - get.debian.net
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