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[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 &lt;word&gt; &lt;source-tree&gt;
+ .
+ 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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