Bug#622124: lintian: overzealous spell checking is actually wrong in one casse
Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.0~rc2
Severity: serious
Justification: Policy 12.1
The new lintian is scoring about 50% for me at the moment.
It is quite correct in asking for 'allows to' to be changed to
'allows one to'. At least I can think of no counter examples.
However it goes too far in asking for 'helps to' -> 'helps one to'.
In all the examples I have seen or can think of, both are grammatically
correct but the one without is more appropriate. Adding 'one' makes it
sounds long-winded and pompous.
These are the only examples I have seen so I do not know what
the larger pattern is.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.20.1-16 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii diffstat 1.54-1 produces graph of changes introduc
ii dpkg-dev 1.16.0.1 Debian package development tools
ii file 5.04-5 Determines file type using "magic"
ii gettext 0.18.1.1-3 GNU Internationalization utilities
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.24+b1 Perl interface to libapt-pkg
ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.34-1 Perl module that automatically gen
ii libemail-valid-perl 0.184-1 Perl module for checking the valid
ii libipc-run-perl 0.89-1 Perl module for running processes
ii libparse-debianchangel 1.2.0-1 parse Debian changelogs and output
ii libtimedate-perl 1.2000-1 collection of modules to manipulat
ii liburi-perl 1.58-1 module to manipulate and access UR
ii locales 2.11.2-11 Embedded GNU C Library: National L
ii locales-all [locales] 2.11.2-11 Embedded GNU C Library: Precompile
ii man-db 2.5.7-8 on-line manual pager
ii perl [libdigest-sha-pe 5.10.1-19 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
lintian recommends no packages.
Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn binutils-multiarch <none> (no description available)
ii libtext-template-perl 1.45-2 Text::Template perl module
ii man-db 2.5.7-8 on-line manual pager
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