[SCM] Debian package checker branch, master, updated. 2.2.6-92-gd416c9d
The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit 25650572f3d857ff03a76de662ec546fc02c1505
Author: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Date: Sun Mar 8 21:10:56 2009 -0700
Suggest gettext unfuzzing when fixing binary spelling errors
* checks/binaries.desc:
+ [RA] Suggest, when fixing spelling errors in binaries, that one
unfuzzy gettext translations as well. Thanks, Raphael Geissert.
diff --git a/checks/binaries.desc b/checks/binaries.desc
index bf7f2d4..dda8633 100644
--- a/checks/binaries.desc
+++ b/checks/binaries.desc
@@ -221,9 +221,15 @@ Tag: spelling-error-in-binary
Severity: normal
Certainty: wild-guess
Experimental: yes
-Info: Lintian found a spelling error in the given binary. Lintian has a list
- of common misspellings that it looks for. It does not have a dictionary
- like a spelling checker does.
+Info: Lintian found a spelling error in the given binary. Lintian has a
+ list of common misspellings that it looks for. It does not have a
+ dictionary like a spelling checker does.
+ .
+ If the string containing the spelling error is translated with the help
+ of gettext or a similar tool, please fix the error in the translations as
+ well as the English text to avoid making the translations fuzzy. With
+ gettext, for example, this means you should also fix the spelling mistake
+ in the corresponding msgids in the *.po files.
Tag: embedded-zlib
Severity: important
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 66979b6..084bbca 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -28,6 +28,8 @@ lintian (2.2.7) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
Patch from Raphael Geissert. (Closes: #517778)
+ [RA] Allow i386 binaries in amd64 packages for right now. Thanks,
Paul Wise. (Closes: #516856)
+ + [RA] Suggest, when fixing spelling errors in binaries, that one
+ unfuzzy gettext translations as well. Thanks, Raphael Geissert.
* checks/changelog-file:
+ [RA] Avoid capturing parentheses in regexes due to their minor
performance penalty. Patch from Raphael Geissert.
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