Bug#588896: lintian: false positive spelling-error-in-copyright on hyphenated words
Package: lintian
Version: 2.4.2
Severity: normal
Hi,
the copyright file of nvclock contains:
....
INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, NONINFRINGE-
MENT, AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. IN NO EVENT SHALL
NVIDIA, CORPORATION BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT, INCI-
....
computer software documentation," as such terms are used in
48 C.F.R. 12.212 (SEPT 1995) and is provided to the U.S. Govern-
ment only as a commercial end item. Consistent with 48 C.F.R.
12.212 and 48 C.F.R. 227.7202-1 through 227.7202-4 (JUNE 1995),
....
and triggers the following lintian reports:
spelling-error-in-copyright ment meant
so the hyphenation seems to be ignored.
This problem with hyphenated words probably exists in other spelling tests,
too.
Andreas
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (800, 'stable'), (700, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable'), (130, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.20.51.20100710-2 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii diffstat 1.47-1 produces graph of changes introduc
ii dpkg-dev 1.15.7.2 Debian package development tools
ii file 5.04-2 Determines file type using "magic"
ii gettext 0.17-11 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-per 0.34-1 Perl module that automatically gen
ii libipc-run-perl 0.89-1 Perl module for running processes
ii libparse-debianchange 1.1.1-2 parse Debian changelogs and output
ii libtimedate-perl 1.2000-1 collection of modules to manipulat
ii liburi-perl 1.54-1 module to manipulate and access UR
ii locales 2.11.2-2 Embedded GNU C Library: National L
ii man-db 2.5.7-3 on-line manual pager
ii perl [libdigest-sha-p 5.10.1-13 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
lintian recommends no packages.
Versions of packages lintian suggests:
ii binutils-multiarch 2.20.51.20100710-2 Binary utilities that support mult
pn libtext-template-perl <none> (no description available)
ii man-db 2.5.7-3 on-line manual pager
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