[SCM] Debian package checker branch, master, updated. 2.4.2-22-g8d5bfe8
The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit bac30f68d84bcc187c0be0cb361b78a106ae87a4
Author: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Date: Sun Jul 25 16:09:23 2010 -0700
Warn that spelling-error-in-binaries may have false positives
* checks/binaries{,.desc}:
+ [RA] Warn that spelling-error-in-binary may produce false positives
for words containing non-ASCII characters. (See #588661)
diff --git a/checks/binaries.desc b/checks/binaries.desc
index 3e11c67..987f657 100644
--- a/checks/binaries.desc
+++ b/checks/binaries.desc
@@ -249,6 +249,9 @@ Info: Lintian found a spelling error in the given binary. Lintian has a
You can often find the word in the source code by running:
.
grep -rw <word> <source-tree>
+ .
+ This tag may produce false positives for words that contain non-ASCII
+ characters due to limitations in <tt>strings</tt>.
Tag: embedded-zlib
Severity: serious
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 4402c70..b0ee4c6 100755
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ lintian (2.4.3) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
+ [RG] Detect embedded copies of expat, libbz2, libmagic, libxml2,
pcre3, and tiff.
+ [RG] Recognise powerpcspe and sh4 ELF objects.
+ + [RA] Warn that spelling-error-in-binary may produce false positives
+ for words containing non-ASCII characters. (See #588661)
* checks/changelog-file{,.desc}:
+ [RA] apt-listchanges has been fixed, so drop the check for NEWS
files ending in a trailing blank line. (Closes: #586816)
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