Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.13
Severity: minor
Lintian is overly eager with spelling-error-in-binary. In one one
package, the string
I9\$ teH
would randomly appear in the output of "strings /path/to/binary" (which
to my understanding is used by lintian to test for spelling errors)
depending on how the planets were aligned at build time; and lintian
would report it as a mispelling of "the".
However, the surounding strings were nothing but garbage:
|$`H
I9\$
I9\$ teH
$uQL)
u;M)
and seeing that the sequence 'teH' randomly occurred in the built
binaries, overriding it caused unused override warnings whenever it
didn't occur.
Please make lintian less eager with it's spelling-error-in-binary
warning.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.8-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_CA.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.22-8
ii bzip2 1.0.6-4
ii diffstat 1.55-3
ii file 1:5.14-2
ii gettext 0.18.2.1-1
ii hardening-includes 2.3
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1
ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.28
ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.30-6
ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.34-1
ii libclone-perl 0.34-1
ii libdpkg-perl 1.16.10
ii libemail-valid-perl 0.190-1
ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.03-1
ii libipc-run-perl 0.92-1
ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.33-1+b1
ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-1
ii libtext-levenshtein-perl 0.06~01-2
ii libtimedate-perl 1.2000-1
ii liburi-perl 1.60-1
ii man-db 2.6.3-7
ii patchutils 0.3.2-1.1
ii perl [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.14.2-21
ii t1utils 1.37-2
Versions of packages lintian recommends:
ii libautodie-perl 2.19-1
ii libperlio-gzip-perl 0.18-1+b2
ii perl-modules [libautodie-perl] 5.14.2-21
Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn binutils-multiarch <none>
ii dpkg-dev 1.16.10
ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.71-1
ii libtext-template-perl 1.45-2
ii xz-utils 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2
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