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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

-- no debconf information



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