Bug#564740: lintian: treats "useable" as a spelling error.
Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant+debianbugs@freegeek.org> writes:
> i get several lintian warnings with regards to the spelling of "useable":
> W: qemu-user-static: spelling-error-in-changelog useable usable
> according to wordnet, at least, "useable" and "usable" are synonyms of
> each other. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/usable also lists "useable" as
> an alternate form.
Usually we get the UK vs. US English problem going the other way. :) In
this case, the problem is that useable is wrong in US English according to
Merriam-Webster but permitted in UK English by the OED.
I'll remove this correction.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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