Bug#625886: lintian: false positive spelling-error-in-manpage

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

On 2011-05-06 17:42, Gennaro Oliva wrote:
> Package: lintian
> Version: 2.5.0~rc3
> Severity: important
> 
> Hi,
> in a manual page of my package there is this sentence:
> 
> The number of microseconds that the slurmctld daemon requires to process
> an epilog completion message from the slurmd dameons.
> 
> and lintian complain about:
> slurm-llnl: spelling-error-in-manpage usr/share/man/man5/slurm.conf.5.gz
> requires to requires one to
> 
> I think that the sentence is correct even if I'm not a native English
> speaker so I may be wrong.
> Thanks
> 
> -- System Information:
> [...]
> -- no debconf information
> 
> 
> 

Hey,

I spoke/chatted with two UK people today and they said the sentence was
"arguably" correct but implied it was sub-optimal.  Particularly:

"""
but it does look a little dubious - do I really have to tell it how long
it takes? As opposed to how long I'm allowing it to take? or how long it
should wait between sending messages?
"""

So you should probably either rewrite the sentence; it is possible that
the people on the English l10n list[1] can help with that (but I am not
completely sure on this one).

~Niels

PS: I doubt neither of them read the manpage, so the comments are based
on the sentence you gave here.

[1] <debian-l10n-english@lists.debian.org>