[SCM] Debian package checker branch, master, updated. 2.2.18-97-g3cfffb8
The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit 2389e936e1924d2816a16cbdea390a1ea1d9c140
Author: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Date: Sat Dec 26 16:55:13 2009 -0800
Set severity of most spelling tags to minor
* checks/changelog-file:
+ [RA] Downgrade spelling tags to severity: minor.
* checks/copyright-file.desc:
+ [RA] Downgrade spelling-error-in-copyright to minor and mention
false positive possibilities and an override in the tag description.
* checks/debian-readme.desc:
+ [RA] Downgrade spelling tag to severity: minor.
* checks/description.desc:
+ [RA] Downgrade spelling tag to severity: minor.
* checks/menus.desc:
+ [RA] Change spelling tags to severity: minor and certainty: certain
since there are few false positives but minor is the correct
severity.
diff --git a/checks/changelog-file.desc b/checks/changelog-file.desc
index ad601ca..a7fef78 100644
--- a/checks/changelog-file.desc
+++ b/checks/changelog-file.desc
@@ -262,7 +262,7 @@ Info: The latest entry in NEWS.Debian has an unusual distribution name.
Debian changelog file.
Tag: spelling-error-in-changelog
-Severity: normal
+Severity: minor
Certainty: certain
Info: Lintian found a spelling error in the latest entry of the Debian
changelog. Lintian has a list of common misspellings that it looks for.
@@ -273,7 +273,7 @@ Info: Lintian found a spelling error in the latest entry of the Debian
misspelled word to avoid triggering this warning.
Tag: spelling-error-in-news-debian
-Severity: normal
+Severity: minor
Certainty: certain
Info: Lintian found a spelling error in the latest entry of the
NEWS.Debian file. Lintian has a list of common misspellings that it
diff --git a/checks/copyright-file.desc b/checks/copyright-file.desc
index 1674f24..e97f56b 100644
--- a/checks/copyright-file.desc
+++ b/checks/copyright-file.desc
@@ -303,11 +303,13 @@ Info: The copyright file for this package does not appear to contain a
product of a United States government agency.
Tag: spelling-error-in-copyright
-Severity: normal
+Severity: minor
Certainty: possible
Info: Lintian found a spelling error in the copyright file. Lintian has a
list of common misspellings that it looks for. It does not have a
- dictionary like a spelling checker does.
+ dictionary like a spelling checker does. If this is a spelling error in
+ the upstream license, in supporting email messages, or a case of Lintian
+ being confused by non-English text, add an override.
Tag: possible-gpl-code-linked-with-openssl
Severity: serious
diff --git a/checks/debian-readme.desc b/checks/debian-readme.desc
index 18549e0..2723b8f 100644
--- a/checks/debian-readme.desc
+++ b/checks/debian-readme.desc
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ Info: The README.Debian file contains an email address (<..@unknown>)
that was not updated to the maintainer's real address.
Tag: spelling-error-in-readme-debian
-Severity: normal
+Severity: minor
Certainty: certain
Info: Lintian found a spelling error in the README.Debian file. Lintian
has a list of common misspellings that it looks for. It does not have a
diff --git a/checks/description.desc b/checks/description.desc
index f9647fe..a2ed61e 100644
--- a/checks/description.desc
+++ b/checks/description.desc
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ Info: The extended description contains a "Homepage:" pseudo-header
description to the fields for the relevant source or binary packages.
Tag: spelling-error-in-description
-Severity: normal
+Severity: minor
Certainty: certain
Info: Lintian found a spelling or capitalization error in the package
description. Lintian has a list of common misspellings that it looks
diff --git a/checks/menus.desc b/checks/menus.desc
index 7ff49a8..f0c03e9 100644
--- a/checks/menus.desc
+++ b/checks/menus.desc
@@ -286,16 +286,16 @@ Info: Unnecessary spaces were found in the paragraph separator line of the
Ref: doc-base 2.3.2
Tag: spelling-error-in-doc-base-title-field
-Severity: normal
-Certainty: possible
+Severity: minor
+Certainty: certain
Info: Lintian found a spelling or capitalization error in the Title field
of this doc-base control file. Lintian has a list of common misspellings
that it looks for. It does not have a dictionary like a spelling checker
does.
Tag: spelling-error-in-doc-base-abstract-field
-Severity: normal
-Certainty: possible
+Severity: minor
+Certainty: certain
Info: Lintian found a spelling or capitalization error in the Abstract
field of this doc-base control file. Lintian has a list of common
misspellings that looks for. It does not have a dictionary like a
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index acb28c4..277bea4 100755
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ lintian (2.3.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
(Closes: #560149)
+ [RA] Also ignore too-long lines that consist of "See" followed by an
unbreakable word. Thanks, Jari Aalto. (Closes: #560005)
+ + [RA] Downgrade spelling tags to severity: minor.
* checks/control-file{,.desc}:
+ [RA] Check for < and > version dependencies in debian/control since
dpkg-source helpfully rewrites and fixes them in binary packages.
@@ -48,12 +49,19 @@ lintian (2.3.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
dependencies and assume the maintainer knows what they're doing.
Add more explanation to the long tag description. Thanks, Reinhard
Tartler and Mike Hommey. (Closes: #557449)
+ * checks/copyright-file.desc:
+ + [RA] Downgrade spelling-error-in-copyright to minor and mention
+ false positive possibilities and an override in the tag description.
* checks/cruft:
+ [RA] Allow an automake or libtool dependency in Build-Depends-Indep
to also satisfy the check for outdated helper files. Thanks,
Guillaume Delacour. (Closes: #557530)
+ [RA] Ignore files in .pc, created by unpacking 3.0 (quilt) packages.
Thanks, Ahmed El-Mahmoudy. (Closes: #556022)
+ * checks/debian-readme.desc:
+ + [RA] Downgrade spelling tag to severity: minor.
+ * checks/description.desc:
+ + [RA] Downgrade spelling tag to severity: minor.
* checks/fields{,.desc}:
+ [ADB] Re-order the fields of build-depends-on-build-essential so that
all of the descriptive text is included. Thanks, Jonathan Wiltshire.
@@ -85,6 +93,10 @@ lintian (2.3.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
Note that Debian groff is currently patched to avoid this problem,
but hopefully that divergence can be removed. Reference
groff-base's README.Debian for more information. (Closes: #548844)
+ * checks/menus.desc:
+ + [RA] Change spelling tags to severity: minor and certainty: certain
+ since there are few false positives but minor is the correct
+ severity.
* checks/ocaml{,.desc}:
+ [RA] New checks for OCaml packaging. Contributed by Stéphane
Glondu. (Closes: #528367)
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