Bug#590723: lintian: false positive for description-contains-duplicated-word

[Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>]

gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org> writes:
> On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:26:28 -0400, gregor herrmann wrote:

>> lintian issues a description-contains-duplicated-word warning for
>> libapp-control-perl:

> Next example:

> libobject-signature-perl

> Description: Signature - Generate cryptographic signatures for objects
>  Object::Signature is an abstract base class that you can inherit from in
>  order to allow your objects to generate unique cryptographic signatures.
>  .
>  The method used to generate the signature is based on Storable and
>  Digest::MD5. The object is fed to "Storable::nfreeze" to get a string,
>  which is then passed to Digest::MD5::md5_hex to get a unique 32
>  character hexadecimal signature.

Yeah, I see what the bug is.  It's stripping quoted strings before doing
spell checking, but it's doing the duplicate word check after stripping
quoted strings, which is obviously incorrect.

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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>