Bug#673611: lintian: False warning about writeable
Andreas Metzler <ametzler@downhill.at.eu.org> writes:
> lintian warns about using writeable instead of writable:
> exim4-base: spelling-error-in-manpage usr/share/man/man8/exim.8.gz writeable writable
> Please drop this check, writeable seems to be a correct way of
> spelling this (at least in the UK).
> https://lists.exim.org/lurker/message/20120519.191737.1cddbff4.en.html
Well, as stated in that message, writable is preferred, but yes, it
doesn't appear to be an error in UK English.
> Imho lintian should only warn about spelling if it there is absolutely
> no doubt the used spelling is wrong.
There's absolutely no doubt that "writeable" is wrong in US English. :)
I suspect we added it without checking the OED or another British source.
I agree with removing it.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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