Bug#803519: lintian: Search for the string "legal" in every file, as it is gererally misused
Him
Bjarni Ingi Gislason wrote:
> The word "(il)legal" is too often used in a wrong sense, both in
> documentation, diagnostic messages, and in a code as a part of a name
> of an identifier.
[...]
> "Lintian" should therefor search for this text string in every file
> and report it. Files with all correct use of "(il)legal" can then
> later be put on the "overrides" list, if they are unchanged from the
> last run of "lintian".
I think that "every file" is a little bit overzealous.
I'd restrict it to packaging (i.e. the debian/ directory) and
explicitly exclude the file debian/copyright as any appearance of the
word "legal" or "illegal" in there is very likely a valid (sic!)
usage.
Regards, Axel
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