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Bug#782902: lintian: please ignore tEH in spelling-error-in-binary



Hi Tomasz,

thanks for the report.

Tomasz Buchert wrote:
> An analysis of https://lintian.debian.org/tags/spelling-error-in-binary.html
> shows that the common spelling mistakes of 'the' are:
> 
>   tEh 10
>   teh 78
>   tEH 1090
> 
> I recommend ignoring 'tEH' since it is arguably a false positive.

Yeah, indeed. I have been annoyed by that in the past, too, but wasn't
annoyed enough to write a bug report. ;-)

> It can be also argued that 'tEh' is a mishit, but I leave it to you.

Sounds valid to me.

> 'teh' on the other hand looks like a genuine mistake (no shift needed).

Definitely.

> I attach a patch for Lintian (not tested).

Thanks! Works fine. Committed and pushed. :-)

I've also added an according (sub-) test to the test suite.

		Regards, Axel
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